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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:30:20 +0900
From:      Osamu MIHARA <mihara@prd.fc.nec.co.jp>
To:        eric@cdc.net
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serious SMP problems on Dell PE 2450 dual P-IIIs 733mhz
Message-ID:  <86vh1l2z43.wl@oz.prd.fc.nec.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:05:18 -0500" <NDBBIMCDELJLMJDJPOFICEONCDAA.eric@cdc.net>
References:  <NDBBIMCDELJLMJDJPOFICEONCDAA.eric@cdc.net>

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At Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:05:18 -0500,
Duncan, Eric A. <eric@cdc.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Basically, I enable SMP support and the system hangs on the PCI probing on
> boot up.  I originally wanted to install 3.4, but had to install 4.0 which I
> seem to like more now (read below).  Here's the configuration:
> 
> Dell Power Edge 2450
> Dual 733mhz 133mhz bus P-IIIs
> 512megs
> Adaptec 7899 U2W SCSI (2940 ahc driver)
>   ^- Important info below.

Your situation is almost same as mine.  I have a dual Xion 500MHz
machine (NEC Express 5800/120Rb-2) with RCC LE chipset, 7899 onboard
SCSI controller and Mylex RAID controller.  With 4.0-STABLE smp
enabled kernel, it hangs up while booting, after the proble of SIO.
I also tried current kernel, but the situation was same.

This problems is reported in freebsd-smp.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-smp/20000220.freebsd-smp

In the thread of mail,  it is reported that there may be a problem in
PnP probing in SMP kernel.  I have asked Conrad, the poster of the
above mail, about his current status, and he still has same problem.

I have tried install RedHad Linux on my machine, and ... it works!
I heard that they had a problem in supporting multiple APIC, and it
was fixed recently.  I would like to suggest smp-hackers to invetigate
Linux's code.
-- 
  Osamu MIHARA // NEC Printers Division


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