6.1 install and multiple drives
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Thu Nov 8 08:22:48 PST 2007
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:12:33AM -0500, Jay Aikat wrote:
> Erik,
> Thanks a ton for this info! One more (this rather lame) question - sorry.
> Where can I download the latest files for this mfi driver from? The ftp
> archive for old releases does not seem to have this.
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE
>
> Thanks!
> --Jay.
>
(The FTP archive should have all the files, but probably not in a format
that can be easily accessed without first installing the release.)
You can always get any version of the source files directly from the CVS
repository. See http://www.freebsd.org/developers/cvs.html for information
on that.
You might also get away with simply copying the files (either source or the
pre-compiled kernel module) from 6.2-RELEASE
There is no guarantee that this will work (since the updated driver might
depend on some other changes) but it might be worth a try.
>
> Erik Trulsson wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0500, Jay Aikat wrote:
>>> I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2900 which has an
>>> Intel dual-core processor, and 8 drives on a SATA backplane, connected to
>>> a PERC 5i controller. They are setup as just a bunch of disks, and not
>>> raided.
>>>
>>> Here's the issue:
>>> -- 6.2 installs fine (but I need 6.1 for some hardware we installed on
>>> this machine that only works with 6.1, not 6.2)
>>>
>>> -- 6.1 install fails with a vm-fault error after starting to write to
>>> disk0 (if all 8 drives have been fdisked and labeled).
>>>
>>> -- 6.1 installs fine if I fdisk and label only the drive0 (mfid0)
>>>
>>> But after installing 6.1 using only one drive, if I then run sysinstall
>>> to add more drives, fdisk works fine, but when I run label, and then
>>> "write" it crashes, and then I can't even boot into the disk0 b/c its
>>> partitions have become corrupted.
>>>
>>> What seems to be happening is that "label" somehow seems to be
>>> duplicating the /var partition in disk0 into the disk1 partition. Then
>>> if I add disk2, label seems to be duplicating the disk1 partition onto
>>> disk2. (this duplication problem I discover when I try to label outside
>>> of sysinstall).
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this bizarre behavior - seems like a bug in bsdlabel in
>>> 6.1 - not sure. Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks,
>>> --jay.
>>>
>> I think I remember seeing a similar bugreport in the past. If I remember
>> correctly it was a bug in the driver for the disk controller.
>> The commit entry quoted below was likely the one which fixed the problem
>> (it was merged to 6-STABLE a couple of weeks later.)
>> As you can see from the date it was made after 6.1 was out, but before
>> 6.2 was out, so it is not surprising 6.2 works while 6.1 does not.
>> ps 2006-06-20 22:41:44 UTC
>> FreeBSD src repository
>> Modified files:
>> sys/dev/mfi mfi.c mfi_disk.c mfi_pci.c mfireg.h
>> mfivar.h
>> Log:
>> Instead of using scsi probes to do device discovery, use the firmware
>> commands to grab the device listing. This resolves issues using
>> multiple volumes, where each volume was actually internally pointing
>> to target 0.
>> Revision Changes Path
>> 1.11 +77 -202 src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c
>> 1.4 +3 -9 src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi_disk.c
>> 1.3 +1 -0 src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c
>> 1.3 +96 -0 src/sys/dev/mfi/mfireg.h
>> 1.3 +1 -3 src/sys/dev/mfi/mfivar.h
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