Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:40:31 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: david@fielden.com.au Subject: Re: Netfinity 5000 and 5.2.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <200405071041.i47Af0Zq014612@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200405061743.i46HhGaX028476@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200405061308.i46D8Noe014487@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Hello! Yesterday I wrote: > Earlier today, I wrote: > > > So, I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on IBM Netfinity 5000 and I'm not > > having much luck. Before going into great technical detail (ha!) and > > frustrating stories of my failures, I just thought to ask, is anyone > > at all running this combination successfully? > > I can now report that it's working. At least so far. The key to success > was a tip I found after digging the IBM website - to make sure in BIOS > setup that *both* Planar SCSI INTA and Planar SCSI INTB are routed to > IRQ15 and none of the adapters in any of the PCI slots are routed to > IRQ15. OK, I eventually had to hard-wire *all* the PCI IRQs, because when I left most of them on "auto" and set only the SCSI ones manually it seems that different IRQs get assigned to different devices on each boot and if the combination is not the winning one, the FreeBSD boot process ends with NMI and the system reboots ca 10 seconds after finishing the boot-up. I tried a lot of combinations and finally found one that works for me: Planar SCSI Channel A: IRQ 15 Planar SCSI Channel B: IRQ 15 Planar Ethernet: IRQ 10 Planar Video: IRQ 9 Planar USB: IRQ 5 ServeRAID in PCI Slot 5: IRQ 11 -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Testicle -- n., a humorous question to an exam.
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