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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:55:16 -0000
From:      "Andrew Tulloch" <andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com>
To:        "'Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)'" <john.cagle@hp.com>, <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
Message-ID:  <004101c2ee51$769c9490$0100a8c0@Elrond>
In-Reply-To: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E44E@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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John,
Very handy, I assume this is what you need:
	BIOS Information
		Vendor: HP
		Version: P29
		Release Date: 01/08/2003
		Address: 0xF0000
		Runtime Size: 64 kB
		ROM Size: 2048 kB
Thanks,
Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) [mailto:john.cagle@hp.com] 
> Sent: 19 March 2003 18:02
> To: Andrew Tulloch; freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
> 
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Could you run this utility and send me the output?
> 
> http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/dmidecode/dmidecode.pkg/2.
> 0/dmidecod
> e-2.0.tar.bz2
> 
> This utility will show the ROM BIOS version without having to 
> reboot the server.  (Complements to Paul Saab for finding 
> this utility.)
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Tulloch [mailto:andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:23 AM
> > To: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston); freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> > Subject: RE: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
> > 
> > 
> > John,
> > I tried installing from a 4.7 cd, but was left without any
> > NICs, the Broadcom 5703X weren't supported, so I used a 
> > 4.8-RC1 cd, which worked perfectly. Unfortunately they're in 
> > a datacenter a couple of hours away and afraid I'm unsure of 
> > the bios version, we've only got them in the last month or so 
> > though. The bios did have Hyperthreading enabled, I tried 
> > disabling, but didn't seem to help.
> > 
> > Incidentally I actually have two of them, both running UP for
> > the moment with MySQL replicating between them and they don't 
> > seem to have any trouble with me throwing full dumps of our 
> > content database at them.
> > 
> > I've attached the pciconf and mptable output as well as going
> > through the messages and finding the last SMP boot I have.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) [mailto:john.cagle@hp.com]
> > > Sent: 19 March 2003 15:10
> > > To: Andrew Tulloch; freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> > > Subject: RE: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Andrew,
> > > 
> > > I have one of these running -stable without any problems. 
>  My setup 
> > > is a bit different: I don't have 2GB of RAM and I'm only 
> using the 
> > > internal storage (ie. I don't have a Smart Array 5302-128 
> board).  I 
> > > originally installed from a 4.7 CD and have cvsup'd to -stable.
> > > 
> > > Do you have the BIOS set to Hyperthreading Enabled?  Can 
> you send me 
> > > the output of 'mptable -verbose' and 'pciconf -lv'?
> > > Also, what is the date of your BIOS?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > John
> > > --------------------------------
> > > John Cagle     john.cagle@hp.com
> > > Principal Member Technical Staff
> > >    Industry Standard Servers
> > >     Hewlett-Packard Company
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Andrew Tulloch [mailto:andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:26 AM
> > > > To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> > > > Subject: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I've got a new compaq DL380G3 with dual 2.8Ghz xeons and
> > 2GB of ram
> > > > installed from a FreeBSD 4.8-RC1 cd and cvsup'd and 
> make world to
> > > > -stable, which all worked fine. However as soon as I SMP 
> > support to
> > > > the kernel and reboot the machine dies. It boots and starts
> > > > services, but after a short time of doing anything it 
> > dies, I tried
> > > > doing a make buildkernel and it lasted about a minute before it
> > > > couldn't seem to access the disk, eventually the 
> machine seems to 
> > > > lock altogether. The disk in question is a RAID5 array of 
> > 3x36.4GB
> > > > SCSI disks connected to a 5302-128 board.
> > > > 
> > > > I've searched and found only one reference to FreeBSD and SMP on
> > > > these machines and it mentioned having the OS Selection 
> > in the bios
> > > > set to Linux, which I did have.
> > > > 
> > > > The only kernel messages I've seen at the time were:
> > > > 
> > > > Mar 17 14:25:53 gandalf /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout
> > -- resetting
> > > > 
> > > > Which is the interface currently in use. It almost 
> seems like the
> > > > machine is just losing interrupts.
> > > > 
> > > > Everything seems to work fine with a UP kernel, completed
> > > > buildworlds without any issue.
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone got one of these and has it working?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Andrew
> > > > 
> > > > Please CC me in any responses as I am currently not subscribed.
> > > > 
> > > > Dmesgs attached.
> > > > 
> > > > Andrew Tulloch
> > > > Systems Administrator
> > > > Slipstream Interactive Ltd
> > > > Email : andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com http://www.itv-f1.com
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 


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