From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 21:06:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB621065676 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:06:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E118FC13 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.74]) by qmta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KSMM1i0031c6gX85CZ6s4C; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:06:52 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KZ6r1i01Y1t3BNj3jZ6sRq; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:06:52 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FE8F102C1E; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:06:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:06:50 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Freddie Cash Message-ID: <20120109210650.GA98353@icarus.home.lan> References: <06569CAF-2BD8-4494-A19C-B32B19DDF915@digsys.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:06:53 -0000 On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:25:45AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > 2012/1/9 Daniel Kalchev : > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > >> Small correction: ??these are AMD Opteron 6218 CPUs, not 2218. > >> > >>> Hardware (alphadrive): > >>> ??Chenbro 5U rackmount chassis with 24 hot-swap drive bays > >>> ??SuperMicro H8DGi-F motherboard > >>> ??AMD Opteron 6218 CPU (8-cores at 2.0 GHz) > > > > You meant Opteron 6128 perhaps? > > Yes, 6128. Aren't typos fun? :) > > > This looks weird coincidence indeed and considering the comments so far I too would question ACPI (BIOS revision, settings etc) and the possibility for some hardware going bad. > > I've upgraded the BIOS to v2.00 same as betadrive. However, using the > exact same BIOS settings as betadrive causes the SATA controllers and > onboard igb(4) interfaces to not be detected. At all. Nothing in > dmesg or pciconf. Resetting BIOS settings to "Failsafe settings" > shows the SATA controllers and onboard NICs. Now the fun begins to > figure out which setting in the BIOS is causing this. > > I'm starting to lean toward a hardware issue with either the CPU > (since most of the chipset is in the CPU nowadays) or the motherboard. > > Have a few more tests to run to try and narrow things down. Probably goes without saying, but: I would report *all* of this behaviour to Supermicro Technical Support. What you could be experiencing is simply a BIOS bug, they should be able to help if you figure out what particular setting causes the problem. For an example of just how nonsensical some BIOS behaviours are, here's a bug report I submit to Shuttle regarding how disabling the Firewire controller on their system resulted in a box that wouldn't even start up: http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/shuttle-sg45h7-firewire-bug-in-bios-sg45u10o/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |