From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 13 8:13:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E6C21521C for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA12958; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:13:22 -0700 Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda12956; Wed Oct 13 08:13:16 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA72452; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910131513.IAA72452@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdm72446; Wed Oct 13 08:12:20 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Mike Smith , dg@root.com, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:26:58 EDT." <4.1.19991011201932.04dabe40@granite.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:12:20 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <4.1.19991011201932.04dabe40@granite.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes: > >> Hotmail has troubleshooted the problem down to the NCR controller. It > >> appears that the problem only occurs when using one of those. If they plug > >> in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems > >> disappear. > > > >We did this (you remember that we went through all this a while back, > >right?), but we've also been seing reports from people that aren't > >using NCR controllers. > > Could it just be a particular BIOS setting affecting things as well ? I > didnt look at the issue too closely, but on the SMP box below, I was having > inital problems until I re assigned the IRQs to be on more sane values if I > recall correctly (e.g not 9/11 or shared with something else). I believe I > also looked at some DMA settings in the BIOS, but it has been a while since > I set this particular box up. On the box below, the IRQ values displayed > in the dmesg, are not the same as what is displayed at boot up time. With > it, I did get a few fxp time outs and such and the box did panic once. It > could be something totally unrelated, but this discussion does ring a bell > with me. This reminds me of an AHC SCSI controller that froze during FreeBSD boot after a Y2K BIOS patch had been installed. There could be some timings that some BIOS's use that we don't know about. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message