Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:01:03 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about thumper aka sun fire x4500 Message-ID: <442D1A0C-2AC9-4758-9905-FC848B37656A@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <20120117220912.GA32330@icarus.home.lan> References: <201201171859.10812.peter@hk.ipsec.se> <20120117220912.GA32330@icarus.home.lan>
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Am 17.01.2012 um 23:09 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:59:08PM +0100, peter h wrote: >> I have been beating on of these a few days, i have udes freebsd 9.0 = and 8.2 >> Both fails when i engage > 10 disks, the system craches and messages = : >> "Hyper transport sync flood" will get into the BIOS errorlog ( but = nothing will >> come to syslog since reboot is immediate) >>=20 >> Using a zfs radz of 25 disks and typing "zpool scrub" will bring the = system down in seconds. >>=20 >> Anyone using a x4500 that can comfirm that it works ? Or is this box = broken ? >=20 > I do not have one of these boxes / am not familiar with them, but > HyperTransport is an AMD thing. The concept is that it's a bus that > interconnects different pieces of a system to the CPU (and thus the > memory bus). ASCII diagram coming up: Not exactly: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/1792-Do-it-yourself-X4500.html At the time, there was no similar board on the market, AFAIK. I haven't looked, but I think it should be easier to get one today...
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