> At 04:19 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >Hmm. I flashed my PERC 2 up to the latest AMI firmware, and with about a
> >dozen bonnie processes running it took about 30 seconds for the controller
> >to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle it to get it to come back).
>
> Is this a purely amr box ? I had been testing it out only on 1 partition
> mounted as /mnt. Although all access to the AMI is hosed, access to my IDE
> is without issue.
No, same setup. I have a terminator with a bunch of pretty LEDs on it on
the back of the disk box, and the SCSI bus was most surely wedged solid.
I've backed off to 4 tags per drive from their "advanced" tag detection
(these are 9GB cheetahs) and it's not dying on me now, so I'm fairly
certain it's either firmware or firmware:drive interaction. 8(
> >I wouldn't say you have a firmware issue there yet, but it's not looking
> >very good.
>
> What rev of the firmware were you using before hand ? the 3.00 from Dell
> ? Like I said, without this rev, I could not do anything with the
> card. From the release notes, it would seem the card has some issues with
> modern BIOSes
The latest Dell firmware was working OK; I'm now using the AMI GH6D
firmware and as above with tags backed off it was OK for a bit - the box
just spontaneously rebooted though, so I'm not so sure it's happy. 8(
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