LSI 1030 mpt doesn't work if I build a new kernel

[Matthew Jacob]

This sounds more like some kind of interrupt/ACPI type of issue.

On 9/8/06, Michael Sinatra <michael at rancid.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Bruce Burden wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:15:23PM -0700, Michael Sinatra wrote:
> >> The really awesome news is that this kernel appears to work just fine
> >> with an out-of-the-box S2895 with SCSI disks; it requires none of the
> >> BIOS gyrations that 6-STABLE still does.
> >>
> >    Hi Michael,
> >
> >       What gyrations are you referring to? I have a Thunder
> >    K8WE/S2895 that is running 6.1/i386, and the MPT driver is
> >    fine.
> >
> >       I do plan to move to 6.1/AMD64 at some point in the near
> >    future, so your comment caught my eye. (I am working with the
> >    Adaptec 2230SLP RAID controller on a AMD64 system to verify
> >    I can control a RAID before switching, as the ASR driver is
> >    not supported under AMD64. However, the CD's and tape plus
> >    the system disk will use the MPT driver).
>
> 6.1/amd64 hangs on boot with the BIOS in the default settings.  To get
> it to boot, I have had to go into the BIOS config and:
>
>         o disable IEEE 1394
>         o disable the SECOND (slave) on-board ethernet
>         o enable bus master on the onboard LSI 1030 MPT
>
> Otherwise, the boot process hangs after the SCSI bus reset.  This
> problem does not occur on 7-CURRENT now that the mpt(4) driver has been
> fixed.
>
> This was still the case as of a few weeks ago with 6-STABLE/amd64.  I'll
> check it again and let you know if anything has changed.
>
> michael
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