Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:00:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu> Subject: Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram Message-ID: <20070111220048.a26c6bc5.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <200701111909.52695.josh@tcbug.org> References: <f17daf040701101347r4fa8f639u2421bff95a47f61@mail.gmail.com> <ba29b9b40701101738v29618198lb9a6999176091b6a@mail.gmail.com> <45A596FC.8040907@chapman.edu> <200701111909.52695.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: > > > On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten > > past the "randomly decides not to reboot when told to" issue? > > Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely > > non-responsive. > > I've heard of this problem, some people have it all the time and > others don't have it at all on the PE 1950. I suspect it has > something to do with the way Dell will occassionally change hardware > mid-run and not tell anyone. :) It's a bizarre timing problem involving the shutdown of drivers. We were trying to track it down, but any time we changed anything in the code, the problem disappeared (i.e. just adding a printf()). Our conclusion was that it was an extremely sensitive timing issue.
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