Re: 3Ware 9500 - incorrect attachment of twa driver to card causing constant rebuilds of system (mirrored) volume?

[David Rhodus <sdrhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:01:07 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon
<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> :On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:16:41PM +0200, Toma? Bor?tnar wrote:
> :> Hello!
> :>
> :>      I have Tyan motherboard with 3Ware 9500-8 controller which is
> :>      recognized just fine. Installer properly installs Dfly on it and
> :> everything. Now that system is running we are trying to set it up according
> :> to our needs - few jails and such. After rebooting the machine via reboot
> :> 3ware card ALWAYS shows that it needs to rebuild the first array which
> :> hosts OS. Then it takes some 23 minutes to do it (a pair of 73G Raptors)
> :> and lights show actual activity. Why does dmesg below show 2 twa devices
> :> with second one having warnings?
> :
> :The reason for the duplication is ACPI. That's why I wanted to disable the
> :PCI enumeration code. Do you need ACPI to get it working?
> :
> :For the problem of buildworld, are you using GCC 2 or GCC 3?
> :
> :Joerg
> 
>     Joerg, how easy would it be to disable the pci enumeration code just
>     for the case where ACPI has been loaded / detected?
> 
>                                         -Matt

I still vote for something like this unless someone can set forward
and work up a correct solution...

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~drhodus/acpi.diff

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                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>