From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 14:10:41 2008 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 4158E1065690; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabian@wenks.ch) Received: from batman.home4u.ch (6to4.home4u.ch [IPv6:2002:d908:d3e2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F808FC08; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:10:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabian@wenks.ch) Received: from flashback.wenks.ch (flashback.wenks.ch [IPv6:2002:3e02:55b4:2:20a:95ff:fe8f:6586]) (authenticated bits=0) by batman.home4u.ch (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9DEAbfv002733 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:10:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from fabian@wenks.ch) Message-ID: <48F356D7.2020603@wenks.ch> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:10:31 +0200 From: Fabian Wenk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <48F11FD6.7050007@wenks.ch> <20081012105711.33009734@ernst.jennejohn.org> <200810130943.22079.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200810130943.22079.joao@matik.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition 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: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:10:41 -0000 Hello Joćo On 13.10.08 13:43, JoaoBR wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 06:57:11 Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:51:18 +0200 >> >> Fabian Wenk wrote: >> > I do have a system with FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RELEASE with 4 GB RAM >> > and an Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (ahc) with only a tape >> > drive connected. The disks are on an Areca RAID controller. Access >> > to the disks and the tape drive does work just fine without any >> > crashes. >> >> This is interesting because the 29160 is exactly the controller with >> which I had all my problems, but I was running it with disks only. > I guess his MB is not an AM2 socket Right, my system board is a Tyan Thunder i7520 (S5360) server board (with only one Xeon single core CPU). The Adaptec SCSI is a PCI and the Areca RAID a PCIe controller. I guess some more facts are needed to track this down. Does it make troubles with more then one CPU core and also more then 3.5 GB RAM running on FreeBSD/amd64? If yes, then I'm not surprised that only a few people see this behavior. I think the following informations would be needed to narrow down the affected environment: - FreeBSD version 6.x, 7.x or 8-CURRENT and i368 or amd64 - make and model of system board - make and model of SCSI controller and which driver - on board SCSI controller or PCI / PCI-X / PCIe - device types connected to the SCSI, eg. disk, tape - number of cpu cores - amount of memory So for my system which works fine, this would be: - FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RELEASE - Tyan Thunder i7520 (S5360) - Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (ahc) - PCI - tape drive (DLT-8000) - 1 cpu core - 4 GB RAM bye Fabian