6.1 install and multiple drives
Jay Aikat
jaikat at email.unc.edu
Thu Nov 8 08:13:22 PST 2007
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.
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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