Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1550 hangs at boot.
To: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/16/2006 22:36:33
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:18:32PM -0600, Peter Eisch wrote:
> On 3/16/06 2:38 PM, "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:36:43AM -0600, Peter Eisch wrote:
> >> amr0: firmware 198U, BIOS 3.35, 128MB RAM
> >> ld0 at amr0 unit 0: RAID 5, optimal
> >> ld0: 34556 MB, 8776 cyl, 128 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 70770688 sectors
> >> isp0 at pci4 dev 1 function 0: QLogic Dual Channel Ultra-3 Wide SCSI HBA
> >> isp0: interrupting at irq 5
> >> isp0: interrupt (ISR=4 SEMA=0) when not ready
> > 
> > Hum, re-reading your previous mail it looks like it could be something
> > uninitialized either in memory, or in the card's registers.
> 
> I will be back by the system again next week.  I don't track the RAID
> controller changes, but I don't recall ever seeing this problem with

It's not the raid mcontroller which causes issues here, it's the SCSI
adapter.

> NetBSD-2.x at all.  Might it be helpful to baseline back to 2.x and see if
> the problem exists there?  (my system is part of a project that has stalled
> for other reasons and I can do most anything with it)

Well, maybe it would help. I guess booting from install media would
be enouth to test

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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