Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:45:51 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Herr Virek <josefvirek@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: V440 with 1.593GHz CPU has scsi errors on LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 controller Message-ID: <20110830084551.GA25304@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <CAA7xWvWp3JUPZwOAWvLBOWHr5eDdq3gtevOnmos-3NU3yi0pDw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAA7xWvWtj-vyoM242a4dYBMikO4-PhLGo8aBnsjaSo%2Bvs=AD_g@mail.gmail.com> <20110823115808.GA73912@alchemy.franken.de> <CAA7xWvWp3JUPZwOAWvLBOWHr5eDdq3gtevOnmos-3NU3yi0pDw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:15:40PM -0700, Herr Virek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Marius Strobl > <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:57:45PM -0700, Herr Virek wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I have a four cpu V440 running current well for a while now. > >> > >> Tried to install on another V440 with this CPU and I have scsi errors > >> until panic when booting off CD or a hard drive with 8.2 installed > >> > >> Has anyone seen issues with this particular CPU? > >> > >> http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1.8/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_SunFireV440_CPU.html#6788 > >> > >> I've swapped disks and optical drives a few times. > >> > >> S10 U8 seems OK so I'm not sure where to start on this one. I've also > >> tried with auto-boot? false and true. > >> > > > > My V440 suffers from the same symptom at times. In that case a > > probe-scsi-all in the PROM boot monitor doesn't report the disk > > either or acts up in odd ways though, so I think this is due to > > a defective SCSI backplane rather than an OS issue, especially > > since these disks just work fine in another machine. If that > > happens shuffling around the disks within the V440 for a while > > typically helps. > > If Solaris really doesn't have problems with this machine the > > only other thing I can think of is that 9.0-CURRENT as well as > > 8.2-STABLE but not 8.2-RELEASE have a workaround which disables > > PCI bus parking if a Cassini device is present as these can > > cause bus hangs if bus parking is enabled. This workaround > > (which is based on information gleaned from the OpenSolaris > > source) is intended for V480 with defective centerplanes but > > might also help V440. > > > > Marius > > > > > > Thanks Marius > > Soon as I removed cas2 FreeBSD boots. > > cas2: <Sun Cassini+ Gigabit Ethernet> mem 0x200000-0x3fffff at device > 1.0 on pci4 > Have you tested how the machine behaves with a recent head or stable/8 and the card inserted? Marius
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