Promise TX2300
Hendrik Hasenbein
hhasenbe at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Jan 17 04:36:27 PST 2006
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:32, Jacky Jack wrote:
>
>>Booting off of the 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly or disc1 with a Promise TX2300
>>card installed causes my box to reboot at the bootloader. Once the card is
>>pulled out I can boot off of either ISO's.
>>
>>Is there any known issues with the TX2300 card?
>
>
> I've had problems with Promise FT100/TX2 controllers with those symptons. Also
> I have seen the loader spin dumping register info until you press the reset
> switch.
I got a Promise 300TX2plus (no RAID) and have the same problems. The
onboard SIL 3112 also triggers reboots. For some strange reason the
behaviour is a little different after a cold start. After a cold start
it reboots after the kernel got loaded and not while trying to load the
kernel. That's the behaviour after the first reboot.
> I found it was only a problem if an array was defined (hah, only..), it seemed
> to only happen on some BIOSen - I had no trouble with older K7 Epox
> motherboards but P4 ones and AMD64 Epox boards exhibited it.
Problem board is a nforce2 asus board.
> Unfortunately the only work around I have is to install on one disk using the
> motherboard controller then mirror onto the other after connecting it to the
> RAID. Obviously this only works if you want a mirror and is a PITA.
Think of one drive and no-floppy and you need to reinstall the bootloader.
> I am not sure how to properly fix it though, or even whos fault it is
> (FreeBSD, mobo maker, or Promise) - in the P4 case I found that the BIOS
> would freeze solid when you entered the menu if an array was defined on the
> RAID card :(
Older install CDs boot if they emulate a floppy.
Hendrik
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