From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 8: 1:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7884637B419; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (208.186.108.30.dsl.infowest.net [208.186.108.30]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EF302146B; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:01:49 -0700 (MST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Samuel J.Greear Organization: GetMegabits, Inc. To: Edwin Culp , hardware@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fnord-430/SuperMicro P3TDE6/ServerWorks SS III HE Super LIght Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:58:45 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> In-Reply-To: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011128160149.5EF302146B@ns1.infowest.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:36 am, Edwin Culp wrote: > I just bought a fnord 430 with a SuperMicro P3TDE6 motherboard with the > ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Super Light chipset. It has 2 - 1G PC133 > RG DIMM C3 128X72 VR Kingston memory chips. The problem is Signal 11 > panics. It seems to be memory related. Kingston sent 2 replacement > chips. I installed them and it made it noticeably worse. With the > new chips I can't even get through an fsck. With the old chips > I haven't been able to do a build world. I will sometimes > get about halfway through. Does anyone else seen problems with > a similar installation. I have been fighting with this for about > four weeks now and can't make it work. > > It has two 3ware escalade controlers. I have current on one and > release on the other and they exhibit the same symtoms. I even > took the escalade controllers out and did an installation on > an ide disk with no real change. > > Any ideas will sure be appreciated. I haven't been successful at > rousting anyone at fnord for over two weeks. They delivered the > machine almost a month late because they were having problems > installing freebsd, their standard installation, which makes me > think that they were having the same problems and rather than > fixing them decided to ship:-( > > Has anyone else had good/bad experiences with FNord and especially with > the 430? [ http://fnordsystems.com ] > > Thanks, > > ed > We had some problems with several ServerWorks-based boards.. (Intel) Symptoms were remarkably similar, seemingly random panics (sig11). At first we thought it was RAM, but the memory checked out good, then we thought it might be a heat issue, so we pulled the cover and got some fans blowing on it, this helped a bit. Then we decided to try running a UP kernel, this helped considerably but didn't completely eliminate the problem. Finally, we flashed the BIOS to the newest version, not a problem since. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message