PERC trouble?

Paul Saab ps at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 19 15:00:12 PDT 2006


this was fixed after 6.1-RELEASE.  You need to grab the driver from -stable.

Ivan Voras wrote:
> I had a chance today to play a little with a server that was later
> passed on for deployment, and one of the thing I tried to do was create
> something unusual - three disk groups/virtual disks on the PERC5/i RAID
> controller, with a single drive in each group (entered as RAID0).
>
> All went fine until I booted FreeBSD 6.1-release (amd64) and tried to do
> something with the drives. It turned out that, while there WERE three
> devices mfid[0,1,2], they all "pointed" to the same hardware - the first
> drive. I.e. accessing either of these would access the first virtual
> drive, and this is confirmed by watching drive LEDs blinking.
>
> The server went away later so I couldn't dig deeper, but I'm wondering
> if this is a bug in PERC or the driver?
>
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