Subject: Re: configuring a mylex DAC960
To: None <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/14/2003 10:19:04
Hmm... you seem to have PCI Mylex card. Here is my one(alphaserver 2100):

mlx0 at eisa0 slot 7: Mylex RAID
mlx0: interrupting at eisa irq 14 (T2 irq 21)
mlx0: DAC960E/960M, 3 channels, firmware 1.99-0-00

I still have problem in using drives connected to this EISA
Mylex(driver and disks are probed but accessing the disks hangs on
read/write). I need some fix for this... PCI version of this card
works well in NetBSD?

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
Subject: configuring a mylex DAC960
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:16:04 +0100

> Hi,
> I've rescues a alphaserver 2100, which among others has this controller:
> mlx0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Mylex RAID (v2 interface)
> mlx0: interrupting at T2 irq 4
> mlx0: DAC960P/PD, 3 channels, firmware 2.19-0-00, 32MB RAM
> mlx0: WARNING: this f/w revision is not recommended
> mlx0: WARNING: use revision 2.42 or later
> 
> Unfortunably all disks have been pulled out, so the mlx0 config is not in sync
> with the hardware. From what I can see from a show dev, it was configured
> with 6 disks:
> dra0.0.0.7.0               DRA0                  1 Member JBOD  
> dra1.0.0.7.0               DRA1                  1 Member JBOD  
> dra2.0.0.7.0               DRA2                  1 Member JBOD  
> dra3.0.0.7.0               DRA3                  1 Member JBOD  
> dra4.0.0.7.0               DRA4                  1 Member JBOD  
> dra5.0.0.7.0               DRA5                  1 Member JBOD  
> 
> At power on, it spends a lot of time looping over:
> waiting for dra.0.0.7.0 to start...
> is there a way to clear this config, so that it doesn't spend time looking
> for its drives ?
> It seems mlxctl doesn't allow this.
> 
> PS: in case I can find enouth disks to use this controller, is there a way to
> upgrade the firmware ?
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
>      NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --

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