From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 15 8:55:22 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 D8F9D37B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D90643F5F for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 31145 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2003 16:55:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Jan 2003 16:55:24 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0FGtHUT010732; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:55:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:55:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Nicolas Kowalski Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org 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 On 15-Jan-2003 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: > phk@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > >> I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were >> removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked too) it >> would screw up the floppy driver. >> >> This sounds like black magic, but the explanation is that the aic >> driver has a very intrusive probe routine which sticks random bytes >> into whatever I/O locations it feels like and this appearantly is >> not liked by certain machines. >> >> Compaqs with all their bells and whistles could be particular >> sensitive to this, so try to disable the aic driver and see >> if it helps. > > I tried this. Now there is only the ahc driver (the only one needed) > compiled in the kernel but this does not help, the server still > hangs. I also removed the ata driver, without success. :-( Is the ML370 a new box? I've heard rumors recently that one of the recent Compaq boxes effectively doesn't generate clock interrupts in SMP mode and there isn't a workaround for that at the moment. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message