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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/32478: scsi/NIC drivers fail when using SMP kernel
Message-ID:  <200208162340.g7GNe3LI096321@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/32478; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: Greg Whynott - A|W SGI <gwhynott@aw.sgi.com>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32478: scsi/NIC drivers fail when using SMP kernel
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:39:27 -0700 (PDT)

 On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Greg Whynott - A|W SGI wrote:
 >   The last RELEASE I attempted was 4.6 on the same piece of equipment
 > and a Dell 610 dual xeon machine using similar ethernet cards.  The Dell
 > has issues similar to the Tyan based machine.  I see 4.6.2 is out,  in
 > the release notes I fail to see any mention of anything relevant to my
 > issues.  Is this the case or have I missed something?  
 > 
 > Unfortunately I can not supply you with the boot -v output you have
 > requested.  The machine was taking more than one day to do its daily
 > tasks so we put an OS on it that supports both SMP and the multi intel
 > ethernet cards.  I look forward to replacing the os with freebsd once
 > again.
 > 
 > Is this issue with all machines equipped with both Adaptec SCSI and
 > Intel ethernet cards or have i just been unlucky in my choice of
 > hardware?  Seems this would be a common configuration.
 > 
 > take care and thanks for your time,
 > 
 > greg
 
 A similar bug that was recently worked around involved disabling irq
 sharing between a SCSI and ATA controller.  All tended to involve SMP.  
 Check out the irqs listed in dmesg and see if they're shared or not.  If
 you continue to have problems, please discuss on stable@freebsd.org.
 
 -Nate
 

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