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Operating Systems SCO Boot hang after relocate of LSI HBA controller Post 302535048 by millosman on Wednesday 29th of June 2011 12:44:05 PM
Old 06-29-2011
Boot hang after relocate of LSI HBA controller

Hi folks,

I had problems trying to install SCO OpenServer 6 on a PC with no floppy drive and a SATA CD drive.
Eventually after advice received on this forum last week, I adopted a different approach by fitting the LSI HBA RAID adapter and associated disks into an older PC that does have CD and floppy drives.
I then installed the megasys (LIS) driver during the install and all went fine installing onto the RAID.
After successful installation I moved the RAID card and disks back into the supermicro Server to find that it doesn't boot properly and gets stuck.
Essentially it displays the SCO logo and boots to the Boot prompt, then proceeds to boot up normally up until it say 'System is booting up please wait (or words to that effect) then shows that it's loading the LSI driver with :-

Notice megasas 00.00.03.05 Oct 2 2006 followed by

0:0,127,0: HBA : (megasys,1) LSI MegaRAID 3.01

and does not proceed any further. Hangs!

I am guessing that either the Kernel doesn't like the new hardware in someway, and think that it may be to do either with different disk geometry or the fact the the RAID card is in a 'different' PCI slot / and therefore bus address.

Inspecting the disk geometry at the boot prompt shows HDPARM0 having the values 1023,255,63 which I believe were the values on the old PC used to install from.
Could it be that running on the new supermicro PC the Bios/RAID card is presenting different geometry and if so how can I find out what geometry is being presented so I can tweak SCO to use the correct geometry?

Any ideas anybody?

Thank you for your efforts in advance,

Rgds
Andy
 

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MPT(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    MPT(4)

NAME
mpt -- LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device scbus device mpt Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): mpt_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The mpt driver provides support for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of SCSI, Fibre Channel and SAS controllers. HARDWARE
The following controllers are supported by the mpt driver: o LSI Logic 53c1030, LSI Logic LSI2x320-X (Single and Dual Ultra320 SCSI) o LSI Logic AS1064, LSI Logic AS1068 (SAS/SATA) o LSI Logic FC909 (1Gb/s Fibre Channel) o LSI Logic FC909A (Dual 1Gb/s Fibre Channel) o LSI Logic FC919, LSI Logic 7102XP-LC (Single 2Gb/s Fibre Channel) o LSI Logic FC929, LSI Logic FC929X, LSI Logic 7202XP-LC (Dual 2Gb/s Fibre Channel) o LSI Logic FC949X (Dual 4Gb/s Fibre Channel) o LSI Logic FC949E, LSI Logic FC949ES (Dual 4Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI-Express) The Ultra 320 SCSI controller chips supported by the mpt driver can be found onboard on many systems including: o Dell PowerEdge 1750 thru 2850 o IBM eServer xSeries 335 These systems also contain Integrated Raid Mirroring and Integrated Raid Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports. The SAS controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems, like the Sun 4100. Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA drives or a mix of them at the same time. The Integrated Raid Mirroring available for these controllers is poorly supported at best. The Fibre Channel controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems. The Apple Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the FC949ES card. This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards. This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card can take on - no separate compilation is required. SEE ALSO
cd(4), ch(4), da(4), pci(4), sa(4), scsi(4), targ(4), mptutil(8), gmultipath(8) LSI Logic Website, http://www.lsilogic.com/. HISTORY
The mpt driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.6. AUTHORS
The mpt driver was originally written for FreeBSD by Greg Ansley and marginally improved upon by Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>. Justin Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> and Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> have made more substantial improvements. BUGS
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