From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 19:18:52 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 4F111106566C for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:18:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0248E8FC0A for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbfr13 with SMTP id fr13so5894733vbb.13 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+cHEGti5/q9Rf6MvKzj9UYdBbG12+lwpbR9rC5ECjLU=; b=NuFdKGnkU+M/RV3hv0gYHlVbZl4rHg+u8uFtpoReTxeyDLMpBD0kKKYS9VZPvvoWvB ZswLrYJvy7CwNQtsFeHYX5Iii/zxu2NOi5kSVHWx64JO6KzzLPh5dxJKcKk42LtqA+Ou WoT+Kni562s3zuJOSPjpURpT3MPMDqJ8vjvAk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.91.17 with SMTP id ca17mr8444734vdb.56.1326223131309; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.191.130 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <06569CAF-2BD8-4494-A19C-B32B19DDF915@digsys.bg> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:51 -0800 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:18:52 -0000 On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > I've upgraded the BIOS to v2.00 same as betadrive. =C2=A0However, using t= he > exact same BIOS settings as betadrive causes the SATA controllers and > onboard igb(4) interfaces to not be detected. =C2=A0At all. =C2=A0Nothing= in > dmesg or pciconf. =C2=A0Resetting BIOS settings to "Failsafe settings" > shows the SATA controllers and onboard NICs. =C2=A0Now the fun begins to > figure out which setting in the BIOS is causing this. Looks like the BIOS upgrade to v2.00a solved the stability issues with FreeBSD 9.0. The box has been up for over 24 hours now, finished a backups run overnight, ran multiple concurrent find processes on the ZFS pool, without any hiccups or issues. There's still something wonky with this BIOS and FreeBSD 9.0 and the older AOC-USAS-L8i SATA controllers, as I had to resort to the "Failsafe Settings". Using the exact same BIOS settings as the other box causes all PCIe devices to disappear. Since the box is working correctly now, as far as we can see, we'll be leaving it like this until the summer when we have more downtime available for testing. Thanks for listening everyone, and offering advice. For now, we'll consider this issue "solved". :) --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com