From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Apr 22 11:26:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00899 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00893 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16720; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:26:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704221826.MAA16720@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: ady@earthling.net cc: smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AHA 2940AU (aic7xxx) safe options In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:50:56 +0300." <335CFA80.70F1@earthling.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:26:23 -0600 Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Hi, it's me again. > > I need to know which of the AHC_* options are safe in the kernel > config file; I tried one kernel and I got big problems (wrong netstat > output, core dumps and finally a nice cold reboot). I'm not sure that > the system doesn't support AHC options but rather my partitions are > ruined in consistency matter speaking. the last time I tried playing with them I successfully used: options AHC_TAGENABLE options AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO I don't currently use any of them as I need to keep non-SMP things as stable as possible so I can zero in on the SMP specific bugs. Stated another way, trying to track -current/scsi as to which option is working with which controller/disk is prone to my missing something and needlessly chasing an otherwise known problem. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD