Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

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...





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?442D1A0C-2AC9-4758-9905-FC848B37656A>