SORRY FOR THIS POST (MISTAKE)

please read my next post with the (almost) same subject.

Pierre Bourgin



Pierre Bourgin a écrit:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a DELL PowerEdge 2600 with a dual RAID hardware controller DELL
> PERC 4/Di.
> 
> Thanks to patches I found in NetBSD-current mailing list, I was able to
> use the PERC 4/Di with the amr* driver; cf. :
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2003/06/09/0071.html
> 
> It was a nightmare to install, especially because of the large size of
> the RAID-logical drives ld*, that implied some modification of the usual
> scheme for disklabel (block size, fragment size).
> 
> % dmesg |grep ld0
> ld0 at amr0 unit 0: RAID 1, optimal
> ld0: 69878 MB, 8908 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 143110144 
> sectors
> boot device: ld0
> root on ld0a dumps on ld0b
> 
> % disklabel ld0
> # /dev/rld0d:
> type: unknown
> disk: unknown
> label: fictitious
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 8908
> total sectors: 143110144
> rpm: 7200
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 4 partitions:
> #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>   a:   6297417        63     4.2BSD   4096 16384    32   # (Cyl.    0*- 
> 391)
>   b:   2088450   6297480       swap                      # (Cyl.  392 - 
> 521)
>   c: 143110081        63     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 
> 8908*)
>   d: 143110144         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 
> 8908*)
> 
> 
> I set empiricaly fsize, bsize and cpg/sgs because newfs was complaining 
> about these values
> (and thanks to its output).
> 
> Where I can find doc. about how to set these values correctly ? I saw 
> nothing in the NetBSD official documentation :(
> 
> 
> I did not found documentation about how to set fsize, bsize and cpg/sgs 
> in order
> to be able to use newfs
> 
> kernel is 1.6U (2003/06/19) using your patches and system is 1.6.1 ...
> 
> some utilies kernel-related do not work of course (lsof, systat), but
> I'm a little afraid of running -current on a production server, since I
> was not able to build a complete release of -current-2003-07-19.
> 
> I was wondering if it's possible to get infos from the Perc 4/Di, such
> as status of RAID logical devices : I removed a harddrive of a RAID-5
> logical drive, but not kernel msg happened.
> 
> the scsictl utility does not work of course, since no scsibus are
> attached to the amr* driver.
> 
> Do you have some hints about it ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pierre Bourgin
> 
> Tracy Di Marco White a écrit:
>  > Pierre Bourgin <pierre.bourgin@pcotech.fr> wrote:
>  >
>  >>Thanks to your post containing some wonderful patches, I think I will be
>  >>able too to use NetBSD on a DELL PowerEdge 2600 (I'm building the
>  >>resulting kernel).
>  >>
>  >>Really thanks for it !!!!
>  >
>  >
>  > You're welcome.
>  >
>  >
>  >>your post:
>  >>
>  >>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2003/06/09/0071.html
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>But do you know why theses patches have not been merged into -current ?
>  >>It would be really nice :-)
>  >
>  >
>  > Andrew Doran wrote them, and was working on additional changes to
>  > fix what causes the messages you get below.  I'll ask if there's
>  > any reason for the delay.
>  >
>  >
>  >>Do you want that I send some additionnal infos. about it ? for instane,
>  >>I've got kernel msgs like 'amr0: enquiry failed (st=2)'.
>  >
>  >
>  > I have that disabled, I'm not sure I have the patch around that disables
>  > it though.
>  >
>  > -Tracy
>  >
>  >
> 
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