6.1 install and multiple drives
Jay Aikat
jaikat at email.unc.edu
Thu Nov 8 10:10:10 PST 2007
Just an update to this (my own) question below. Turns out the mfi_ioctl.h file
is not listed as an updated one in the list below, but I needed to change that
file as well.
So, I copied that from the 6.2 distribution as well, and then the kernel
compiled fine. Even better, I was then able to, with the new kernel installed,
fdisk and label my other 7 drives - no problems! Thanks to Erik and this very
helpful list!
--Jay.
Jay Aikat wrote:
> Erik,
> Thanks. I used the CVS repository directly. It turns out that that
> still has the old versions of these files for 6.1. So, I grabbed the
> files for 6.2 instead and compiled them into my kernel. Doesn't work.
> Error included below for reference.
>
> Would you know if there is someone I could contact to get the 6.1
> updates for these files, if it is not in the repository? Thanks,
>
> Error in make:
> ./../dev/mfi/mfi.c
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c: In function `mfi_ioctl':
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1824: error: storage size of 'l_ioc' isn't known
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1824: warning: unused variable `l_ioc'
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1845: error: storage size of 'l_aen' isn't known
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1845: warning: unused variable `l_aen'
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c: In function `mfi_linux_ioctl_int':
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1876: error: storage size of 'l_ioc' isn't known
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1877: error: storage size of 'l_aen' isn't known
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1894: error: `MAX_LINUX_IOCTL_SGE' undeclared
> (first use in this function)
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1894: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1894: error: for each function it appears in.)
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1994: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete
> type
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1876: warning: unused variable `l_ioc'
> ../../../dev/mfi/mfi.c:1877: warning: unused variable `l_aen'
> *** Error code 1
>
> --jay.
>
>
> Erik Trulsson wrote:
>> 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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