From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 15 9: 5:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD3137B401; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:05:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com [161.114.1.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267AB43F43; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:05:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.cagle@hp.com) Received: from cceexg13.americas.cpqcorp.net (cceexg13.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.110.250.119]) by ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5161D7C; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:05:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.110.250.85]) by cceexg13.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:05:41 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:05:24 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 Thread-Index: AcK8tu59ypK0h8E/R4GpVMa9lTZ89QAAQXxg From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" To: "John Baldwin" , "Nicolas Kowalski" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2003 17:05:41.0585 (UTC) FILETIME=[55986410:01C2BCB8] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's a vicious rumor -- no operating system could work without clock interrupts in SMP mode... Could it? Which generation of the ML370 is having this problem? I had a similar problem on another box that was corrected with a newer BIOS version. Thanks, John > -----Original Message----- > From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org]=20 > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:55 AM > To: Nicolas Kowalski > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 >=20 >=20 >=20 > On 15-Jan-2003 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: > > phk@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > >=20 > >> I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were=20 > >> removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked=20 > too) it would=20 > >> screw up the floppy driver. > >> > >> This sounds like black magic, but the explanation is that the aic=20 > >> driver has a very intrusive probe routine which sticks=20 > random bytes=20 > >> into whatever I/O locations it feels like and this=20 > appearantly is not=20 > >> liked by certain machines. > >> > >> Compaqs with all their bells and whistles could be particular=20 > >> sensitive to this, so try to disable the aic driver and see if it=20 > >> helps. > >=20 > > I tried this. Now there is only the ahc driver (the only=20 > one needed)=20 > > compiled in the kernel but this does not help, the server=20 > still hangs.=20 > > I also removed the ata driver, without success. :-( >=20 > Is the ML370 a new box? I've heard rumors recently that one=20 > of the recent Compaq boxes effectively doesn't generate clock=20 > interrupts in SMP mode and there isn't a workaround for that=20 > at the moment. >=20 > --=20 >=20 > John Baldwin <>< =20 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use > the Power to=20 > Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message