amr driver not working in SMP / apic

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 05:17 pm, Heiko Weber wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 17:11 schrieb John Baldwin:
> > On Thursday 01 September 2005 03:36 am, Heiko Weber wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a Fujitsu Siemens TX200 S2 (2x Xeon on board) with a LSI
> > > MegaRAID 320-0X. I configured a RAID 5 disk array - but the problem
> > > dont go away if I configure no raid (only physical drives).
> > >
> > > If I boot GENERIC with "apic" enabled in the kernel the amr driver
> > > responses
> > >
> > > amr0: adapter is busy
> > >
> > > three times, then the system hangs. If I disable "apic" the system
> > > boots as expected, the logical drive could be used for installation.
> > > The amr driver prints two lines about the size of the logical drive
> > > instead.
> > >
> > > I installed the system in "safe mode", everything works as expected.
> > > But if I enable "apic", the "busy" comes up. I tried building a new SMP
> > > kernel, same as above: using a "one line" empty loader.conf with
> > > disabled apic makes the system running. I tried some combinations of
> > > acpi, apic, ata-dma, .... (the system only has a ata cdrom). No chance,
> > > only disabled apic get it up.
> > >
> > > I tried FreeBSD 5.4-stable. I also downloaded a (unsupported) driver
> > > from LSI webserver, this prints the size of the logical array, but
> > > hangs too. I then compared the native 5.4 driver with the -current,
> > > only one cosmetic changes. So I expect testing -CURRENT has no effect ?
> > >
> > > Is it worth to spend time on this? Is it a bug?
> >
> > What happens if you disable ACPI but leave APIC enabled, does amr still
> > break? Also, does 4.x work ok on this system with SMP and APIC_IO?
>
> Hi John !
>
> FreeBSD 5.4 will not boot if APIC is enabled, no matter if ACPI is on or
> off. Hey, the tipp with 4.x was great, I downloaded a 4.11-mini-inst.iso,
> boot was ok, installed a minimal system, added option SMP with APIC to the
> kernel-config, build kernel, and SUPER: 4.11 booted with SMP from logical
> RAID 5 array.
> Then I downloaded the boot-only image from 6-CURRENT (BETA3), and tried to
> boot: SUPER, it looks like the kernel is allready a SMP kernel, it detects
> bot Xeons, started 4 (virtual) CPUs as in 4.11. At the setup-screen I
> viewed into partitions, sounds ok ...
> Hmm, reviewing the boot-log (with scroll-lock) of 6-CURRENT I "missed"
> something, which I've seen each boot with 5.4, so I restarted the machine
> with the 5.4 cdrom. Just before the mystery "amr0: adapter is busy" there
> are 3 lines with ata1-master - I thought it is there because there is only
> a cdrom installed (harddisk are scsi), but maybe ... :
>
> md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680 bytes at 0xc09dde24
> ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
> ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
> ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
> amr0: adapter is busy
> amr0: adapter is busy
> amr0: adapter is busy
>
> Well, now, what to do next ? Go into production (apache webserver with perl
> & mysql database) on an "older" 4.11 or an really new 6-BETA3 ?

Well, 6.0 will probably be out this month, so that is probably your best bet 
going forward.  There are several things changed in 6.0 versus 5.4 and I'm 
not sure which ones would fix your box on 5.4.

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