From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 23:01:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1066B1065675 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:01:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from mail.ultra-secure.de (mail.ultra-secure.de [78.47.114.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DD58FC1D for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 81996 invoked by uid 89); 17 Jan 2012 23:01:06 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 81991, pid: 81993, t: 0.0550s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.97.1/m:54/d:14319 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.201?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.83.52) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 17 Jan 2012 23:01:05 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Rainer Duffner In-Reply-To: <20120117220912.GA32330@icarus.home.lan> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:01:03 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <442D1A0C-2AC9-4758-9905-FC848B37656A@ultra-secure.de> References: <201201171859.10812.peter@hk.ipsec.se> <20120117220912.GA32330@icarus.home.lan> To: Jeremy Chadwick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about thumper aka sun fire x4500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:01:08 -0000 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...