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

[Matthew Dillon]

: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
					Matthew Dillon 
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