From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 19:15:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512911065670; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cowens@greatbaysoftware.com) Received: from portcityhosting.com (bayringfw.portcityweb.com [64.140.243.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B0B8FC13; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([173.14.128.81]) by portcityhosting.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:15:19 -0500 X-WatchGuard-Mail-Exception: Allow Message-ID: <4B326D2F.5000708@greatbaysoftware.com> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:19:11 -0500 From: Charles Owens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <4AF2E837.2080705@greatbaysoftware.com> <4B1FBBFD.3080301@greatbaysoftware.com> <200912100832.51523.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200912100832.51523.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/139654: CD-boot failure on newer IBM server X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:15:24 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 10:02:21 am Charles Owens wrote: >> Charles Owens wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> As detailed in the PR, we are unable to get FreeBSD (7.1) to boot with >>> an IBM System x3250 M2 server. I'm not sure what steps to take next, >>> and would greatly appreciate assistance. >>> >>> We've also submitted kern/139653 which deal with different hardware (HP) >>> and is not quite as critical (very poor performance, as opposed to >>> complete failure)... any suggestions with this also welcome. >>> >>> PR links: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/139654 >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/139653 >> >> Tying up this loose thread... PR kern/139654 turns out to be duplicate >> of kern/103602. Patch in PR from Alexander Motin (mav@) appears to >> resolve our issue (works fine in 7.1 but must be applied by hand). Our >> thanks to him for his generous support. > > Does the same patch address 139653 at all? > Fundamentally, it doesn't appear to help. With patch in place it appears that the READ_BIG error message pops up much less during use of the CDROM drive, but the main concern, sluggish performance, is very much still present. Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc.