mlx(4) fully and ep(4) partially broken on 6.0

From: Oliver Lehmann (lehmann_at_ans-netz.de)
Date: 07/30/05

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    Hi,

    after a <1sec power outage caused by a tempest some of my systems decided
    to reboot. One of the systems was my freshly updated (5.4->6.0) router.

    1st problem with 6.0:
    ---------------------

    The system kept rebooting automaticly after it detected ep0. It was
    saying sth. like "ep0: no irq?!". The funny thing is, one line above it
    wrote sth. like "ep0 <3COM....> irq 9 ....". for me that looks like ep0
    has of course an irq assigned.

    I am happy that I have physical access to this system! Damn!

    I changed the perfectly-on-5.4 working 3com card with an other I had
    on storage - panic is gone now.

    2nd problem with 6.0:
    ---------------------

    The system nicely detects my mlx Controller:

    mlx0: <Mylex version 3 RAID interface> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
    0xffafff80-0xffafffff irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0
    mlx0: DAC960P/PD, 2 channels, firmware 3.51-0-04, 16MB RAM

    but no disk (mlxd0) which means no disk over all for this system!
    *sigh* - I'm out of luck today

    So I took an old hdd with 4.11 installed, booted the system with it,
    mounted the well detected mlx-disk, compiled 6.0-GENERIC on an 6.0 system,
    transfered the GENERIC kernel via nfs to my mlxd0a:/boot/kernel, rebooted
     - nice still no mlxd0 on 6.0 - so I'm not able to mount root with 6.0

    And once more... I'm happy that I have physical access to this system.

    For all that I lost 3.5hrs and I'm not really amused about this. I saw no
    other way then restoring the backup I made last sunday to get my router
    back working. DAT is great when it comes to speed. :(

    on my restored 5.4 system it looks like:
    mlxd0: <Mylex System Drive> on mlx0
    mlxd0: 2150MB (4403200 sectors) RAID 1 (online)
    root@gurke olivleh1> mlxcontrol config
    # Controller <INSERT DETAILS HERE>
    #
    # Physical devices connected:
    # disk0000 (online)
    # <IDENTIFY FAILED> 2150MB fast wide sync tag-enabled
    # disk0100 (online)
    # <IDENTIFY FAILED> 2150MB fast wide sync tag-enabled
    #
    # System Drives defined:
    drive00 RAID1 writethrough
      span0 0x00000000-0x00433000 2150MB on disk0000 disk0100
    root@gurke olivleh1>

    Please please someone should fix both issues until 6.0 gets released.
    If any further help (testing, informations) is required from my side
    please let me know.
    I've a 2nd mlx controller (but 2.73 BIOS) I can probably try with in a
    different system.

        Greetings, Oliver 

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