From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Garrett Subject: Re: Megaraid problems with >8GB RAM Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:35:24 +0100 Message-ID: <42E6BAAC.2070100@garrett.co.uk> References: <42E6B2A5.9070903@garrett.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:47743 "EHLO mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262285AbVGZWfF (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:35:05 -0400 Received: from aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050726223504.DFJU22560.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:35:04 +0100 Received: from [192.168.99.15] (really [82.18.123.115]) by aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050726223504.TKZK19483.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.99.15]> for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:35:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <42E6B2A5.9070903@garrett.co.uk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Russ Garrett wrote: > When installing Linux on a pair of new dual-opteron servers (16GB of > RAM and a MegaRAID 320-2), neither the megaraid v1, nor v2 drivers > could talk to the actual MegaRAID hardware. The v1 driver simply > caused the system to lock up, wheras the v2 driver produces the error > "megaraid: maibox adapter did not initialize" after a while. Just to note that these cards are at the latest firmware (1L37), which is getting round to a year old now. I knew I'd forgotten to mention something. Russ