freebsd stable - Feb 2009 - poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

Hello,

This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge
servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x.  It went fine and quickly on the
poweredge 1950, but it failed completely on the poweredge 1850. 

Facts:

- boot cd and setup / operation of freebsd 6.x or 7.0 is fine
   Message log abstract: 
	$ uname -v
	FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun Dec 21 08:31:52 UTC 2008    
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
	$ dmesg|grep amr
	amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem
0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2
	amr0: Using 64-bit DMA
	amr0: [ITHREAD]
	amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
	amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Si> Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM
	amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
	amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
	amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
	Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a

- boot cd of 7.1 fails because the installed doesn't see any harddisk. 
   Message log abstract:
    	amr0: adapter is busy
	amr0: adapter is busy
	amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
 

I also tried to setup 7.0, and then upgrade to 7.1 with freebsd-update,
but then it fails exactly like with the 7.1 boot CD
(7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso). Screenshot: 
     http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg

BIOS Message about the Controller on system startup:
PowerEdge Expandable RAID COntroller BIOS, (c) 2006 LSI Logic
Corporation

I'm not sure what I can try next...  I'd still like to be able to run
7.1 on this host as well as on several other old but still fine 1850. Is
my system simply too old?  Why is my adapter "busy" under 7.1?  What
would you try?   I checked the relnotes as well, but saw nothing helpful
about my problem there.

regards & thanks in advance for any feedback,
Olivier

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:51 +0100, Olivier Mueller
wrote:
> Hello,
> This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge
> servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x.  It went fine and quickly on the
There's already discussion about this in the archives.  We're aware and
working on it.

Set:
/boo/loader.conf

kern.cam.scsi_delay=20000

As a work-around for now.

Tracking the megarc memory corruption (and general amr(4) problems with
the PERC4) at:


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128082

~BAS
> poweredge 1950, but it failed completely on the poweredge 1850. 
> 
> Facts:
> 
> - boot cd and setup / operation of freebsd 6.x or 7.0 is fine
>    Message log abstract: 
> 	$ uname -v
> 	FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun Dec 21 08:31:52 UTC 2008    
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 	$ dmesg|grep amr
> 	amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem
0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2
> 	amr0: Using 64-bit DMA
> 	amr0: [ITHREAD]
> 	amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
> 	amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Si> Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM
> 	amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
> 	amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> 	amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
> 	Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a
> 
> - boot cd of 7.1 fails because the installed doesn't see any harddisk. 
>    Message log abstract:
>     	amr0: adapter is busy
> 	amr0: adapter is busy
> 	amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
>  
> 
> I also tried to setup 7.0, and then upgrade to 7.1 with freebsd-update,
> but then it fails exactly like with the 7.1 boot CD
> (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso). Screenshot: 
>      http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg
> 
> BIOS Message about the Controller on system startup:
> PowerEdge Expandable RAID COntroller BIOS, (c) 2006 LSI Logic
> Corporation
> 
> I'm not sure what I can try next...  I'd still like to be able to
run
> 7.1 on this host as well as on several other old but still fine 1850. Is
> my system simply too old?  Why is my adapter "busy" under 7.1? 
What
> would you try?   I checked the relnotes as well, but saw nothing helpful
> about my problem there.
> 
> regards & thanks in advance for any feedback,
> Olivier
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"