Re: 6.1 install and multiple drives

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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