Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:04:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Jim Zajkowski <jim@jimz.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-R on IBM xSeries 305 or Dell PowerEdge 650? Message-ID: <20040202160027.T75850@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <C723F19D-55D5-11D8-AC4B-000A95DA58FE@jimz.net> References: <200401281727.58543.zec@tel.fer.hr> <20040128163803.GR35515@freebsd.org.ru> <C723F19D-55D5-11D8-AC4B-000A95DA58FE@jimz.net>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > On my x335's I've found: > > a. I needed to disable ACPI too. I'd generally like to leave it on for the temperature monitoring, but you do what you can. I looked at the DSDT briefly and think there was a potential ordering issue between the floppy disk drive and the keyboard resources ... the init method for the floppy twiddles an enable bit the other ISA/LPC devices all look at when building _CRS. Since we decided to not buy any more IBMs (due to QA issues... don't seem to understand how to jumper ATA drives) I haven't looked at it any further. > b. On 5.1 I needed to step down the number of open tags (camcontrol > tags) to 32 or less to prevent the whole thing from locking up. Heh -- I thought all the x335s were ATA. The x345 didn't look like a different mainboard. You are in a twisty maze of IBM part and config numbers, all different... :) > c. On 4.9 I needed to not enable the HTT "processors" or I got sluggish > performance. The real SMP processors work fine. I haven't tried putting -stable on it. Sounds like your workload is one of those that isn't HT-happy, unless you mean general operation. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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