Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:29:43 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems w/Intel D946GZIS + Pentium D (Possible SMP Problem) Message-ID: <465D9867.40804@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <4659DB64.2010608@tundraware.com> References: <4659DB64.2010608@tundraware.com>
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Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Just bought: > > Intel D946GZIS MOBO w/ICH7 SATA-II support > WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 250G Hard Drive that claims to do 3G/s > Pentium D @ 3.2GHz > > In addition to the on-board peripherals, the two available > PCI slots have an Adaptec 2930CU SCSI controller and > a 3Com 3C901 card in them respectively. > > I've run into a problem that makes no sense to me and I suspect > is related to how SMP works (or, then again, maybe not): > > 1) When booting FBSD 6.2, right after the second CPU is started > the system hangs for about 45 seconds and then proceeds normally. > This happens with GENERIC-Release, SMP-Stable, and SMP-Release kernels. > During this wait, the floppy goes active for some reason. > At first, I thought this was somehow related to the 2nd CPU being fired up, but after looking at /var/log/messages I doubt this is it. It seems that the long delay is somehow related with the system trying to mount the SATA drive (ads4a). What is strange is that: a) A SATA-300 drive/controller are seen as SATA-150 and b) That the floppy drive goes active during this long pause as the system "hunts" to mount the drive. Does any of this make sense to you hardware/driver geniuses out there? Other than these two boot-time problems, the system appears to be stable and work well. I'm just concenred I have to way during each boot and am not able to get full drive/controller performance.
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