Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:11:19 -0500 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro H8DAR-8 motherboard Message-ID: <4303A7F7.5050408@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <43039D1E.8070209@samsco.org> References: <42D66D84.9010701@palisadesys.com> <42D68EDA.7050808@mullet.se> <43036A03.2030708@palisadesys.com> <43039D1E.8070209@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > Guy Helmer wrote: > >> Martin Nilsson wrote: >> >>> Guy Helmer wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone on the list tried the new Supermicro H8DAR-8 or related >>>> motherboards for Opterons? If so, any issues? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a H8DAE running in a test-box before we start selling them. >>> >>> So far I have ony found one problem: >>> It is impossible to boot FreeBSD/i386 with the 1U IPMI card, the >>> kernel panics when loading the keyboard driver. This does not happen >>> with FreeBSD/amd64. I haven't tested how well the IPMI card works in >>> FreeBSD, there may be problems with the bge driver. >>> >>> Other than that I really like the board. If you have any more >>> questions I'll be happy to answer them. >>> >> We received the H8DAR-8 unit a little over a week ago with dual >> Opteron 275s and it has been running well since. I didn't have any >> problem installing FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, and I ran "make -j12 >> buildworld" continuously on it over a weekend. It finally crashed on >> an sbfree call, but I'd chalk that up to BETA1. It's been solid >> under a lighter load since. I like the board and I'm glad Supermicro >> was able to cram it into a 1U case :-) >> >> Guy >> > > Do you have any crash data on the panic? Unfortunately, we haven't > perfected the 'self fixing beta release', so we rely on good reports > to get bugs fixed manually =-) > > Scott I'll have to build a kernel with the debugging features to get a useful backtrace (if I can make it happen again with the current BETA-2 sources). I'll try to get it started tomorrow. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.
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