On 6/28/07, Adam Hamsik <haaaad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:58 AM, Brandon Lee wrote:
>
> > On 6/28/07, pierre-philipp braun <pbraun@nethence.com> wrote:
> >> (posted to tech-kern, not i386 & current-users)
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've tryed NetBSD current (20070513 or 16) on a poweredge 2900,
> >> SAS Dell
> >> PERC 5/i.  dmesg atteched.  It worked, but _very_ slowly,
> >>
> >> bsdp# time dd if=/dev/zero of=lala.zero count=100 bs=1024k
> >> 100+0 records in
> >> 100+0 records out
> >> 104857600 bytes transferred in 7.251 secs (14461122 bytes/sec)
> >>          7.26 real         0.00 user         0.34 sys
> >>
> >> bsdp# sh ./bench.sh
> >> 100+0 records in
> >> 100+0 records out
> >> 104857600 bytes transferred in 13.590 secs (7715791 bytes/sec)
> >>         13.61 real         0.00 user         0.42 sys
> >> 100+0 records in
> >> 100+0 records out
> >> 104857600 bytes transferred in 16.508 secs (6351926 bytes/sec)
> >>         16.56 real         0.00 user         0.44 sys
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> in comparaison, SLES9sp3 + Dell official drivers (I know, it's
> >> unfair),
> >>
> >> slesp:~ # time dd if=/dev/zero of=lala.zero count=100 bs=1024k
> >> 100+0 records in
> >> 100+0 records out
> >>
> >> real    0m0.310s
> >> user    0m0.000s
> >> sys     0m0.309s
> >>
> >>
> >> slesp:~ # sh bench.sh
> >> 100+0 records in
> >> 100+0 records out
> >>
> >> real    0m0.503s
> >> user    0m0.000s
> >> sys     0m0.492s
> >> 100+0 records in
> >> 100+0 records out
> >> slesp:~ #
> >> real    0m0.734s
> >> user    0m0.000s
> >> sys     0m0.722s
> >>
> >>
> >> bench.sh:
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> time dd if=/dev/zero of=lala.zero count=100 bs=1024k &
> >> time dd if=/dev/zero of=lala2.zero count=100 bs=1024k
> >> rm lala.zero
> >> rm lala2.zero
> >>
> >>
> >> Pierre-Philipp
> >>
> >> Brandon Lee wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Recently i have got a DELL SC440 that comes with RAID controller
> >> (Dell
> >> > Serial-Attached SCSI 5/iR controller).  I was installing the server
> >> > with NetBSD4 200706230002Z snapshot iso but the installer complain
> >> > that there was no harddisk found.
> >> >
> >> > Tried to boot off CentOS 5 and manage to find out the RAID
> >> Controller
> >> > device is "LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS"
> >> > using mptbase and mptsas linux kernel modules.  Have tried to
> >> google
> >> > on BSD variants with that RAID controller and the closest match was
> >> > OpenBSD mpi driver.
> >> >
> >> > Are there any work on this driver support in NetBSD?  Attached
> >> is my
> >> > dmesg during installation.
> >> >
> >> [snip]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the dmesg.  The dmesg was from an already installed NetBSD
> > current on your box?  I cant even get the installation iso done on my
> > box, so i do not think i would be able to upgrade to the current
> > without getting NetBSD installed.
> >
> try current iso from NetBSD-daily HEAD is build twice a day now.
>
> > From your dmesg, your RAID controller seems to be "DELL PERC 5/i" :
> > sd0 at scsibus2 target 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 5/i, 1.00> disk fixed
> > sd0: fabricating a geometry
> > sd0: 136 GB, 139392 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x
> > 285474816 sectors
> >
> > My RAID controller is detected as "DELL SAS 5i/R" model in linux.  And
> > further looking at my netbsd installer's dmesg, it seems the network
> > card is also not supported by the iso.
> >
> > any help????
> >
> >
> > --
> > ./Brandon
>
> Regards
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> Adam Hamsik
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Hi,

have just tried out the latest HEAD version but result is stil the same.

-- 
./Brandon