4.10S amr v1.7.2.14 hangs at boot with Dell PERC3/DC (fwd)

[Mark Powell]

Hi,
  I've been trying to even get a response from someone who admits that
they maintain the amr driver. See below. Does anyone know who the right
person to contact is?
  Cheers.

NB Apologies to anyone irked by my copying basically a private exchange to
this list. It's about scsi drivers not girlfriends, guys :)

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Mark Powell wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
>
> > Mark - amr is maintained by Atul.
>
> Does Atul read his email? :)

I never did receive a reponse to this problem report :(
  I notice that in 4.10S the same problem still exists. I'm having to
build all kernels for Dell servers with amr cards with v1.7.2.13 to get
them to boot. i.e.

non-working versions are

 *      $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/amr/amr.c,v 1.7.2.14 2003/10/29 09:11:38 ps Exp $
 * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/amr/amr_disk.c,v 1.5.2.6 2003/10/29 09:11:38 ps Exp $
 *      $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/amr/amrvar.h,v 1.2.2.6 2003/10/29 09:11:38 ps Exp $

working versions are:

 *      $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/amr/amr.c,v 1.7.2.13 2003/01/15 13:41:18 emoore Exp $
 * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/amr/amr_disk.c,v 1.5.2.5 2002/12/20 15:12:04 emoore Exp $
 *      $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/amr/amrvar.h,v 1.2.2.5 2002/12/20 15:12:04 emoore Exp $

Changing these 3 files gets the server to boot.
  Surely this is quite a show-stopper to be ignored for 3 months?
  Many thanks.

>   Cheers.
>
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:24 AM, Mark Powell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   I'm not sure if you're the author of the FreeBSD amr driver? Is the
> > > below a known problem?
> > >   Cheers.
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:48:55 -0800
> > > From: Mike Smith <msmith at freebsd.org>
> > > To: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell at salford.ac.uk>
> > > Cc: Atul Mukker <Atulm at lsil.com>
> > > Subject: Re: amr v1.7.2.14 hangs at boot with Dell PERC3/DC
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 19, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Mark Powell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >   I have a Poweredge 2550 with a Dell PERC3/DC card. If I use amr.c
> > > > (and
> > > > related files) from 30/10/03; i.e. v1.7.2.14; then the
> > > kernel hangs at
> > > > the
> > > > point where it would bring the RAID controller up. If I
> > > revert to the
> > > > previous version of amr.c; i.e. v1.7.2.13; then all is fine.
> > > >   I tried searching to see if this was a known bug, but
> > > couldn't find
> > > > anything.
> > > >   I'm contacting you as a last resort, as I know you must be busy.
> > >
> > > Mark,
> > >
> > > The amr(4) driver is maintained by LSI these days; Atul, all yours. 8)
> > >
> > >   = Mike
> > >
> >
>
>

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