From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 16:14:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6E216A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wbm2.pair.net (wbm2.pair.net [209.68.3.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 751F243F3F for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjent@rjent.pair.com) Received: (qmail 60704 invoked by uid 65534); 13 Oct 2003 23:14:29 -0000 Received: from 204.184.227.254 ([204.184.227.254]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user rjent@rjent.pair.com) by webmail.pair.com with HTTP; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:14:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <11408.204.184.227.254.1066086869.squirrel@webmail.pair.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:14:29 -0400 (EDT) From: To: X-pair-Authenticated: 204.184.227.254 In-Reply-To: <11113.204.184.227.254.1066070555.squirrel@webmail.pair.com> References: <11113.204.184.227.254.1066070555.squirrel@webmail.pair.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Gateway 980 server freeze? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:14:31 -0000 Greetings, Additional information: If I enable the 82544GC onboard nic and place the PCI-X Intel 82544Ei card a pci standard slot (not pci-x) then the box hangs on boot at the megaraid controller after sees raid5 stripe. If I disable the 82544GC onboard nic and place the PCI-X Intel 82544Ei card a pci standard slot (not pci-x) then the box functions great. > Greetings, > > I am having trouble with a new Gateway 980 server. I am running fresh > cvsup RELENG_4, kernel is stock except for maxusers set to 512, ipfw > enabled, and smp enabled. System information is as follows: > > Motherboard information is located at: > > http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/MOTHERBD/4000791/4000791mv.shtml > > The raid card is a LSI U320 LVD 2-Channel SCSI Array Controller. Box > configure with raid5 +hotswap > > Symptoms: > > Box doing internal operations all well. Upon placing load on device > through NIC box freezes. Reproducible via a scp of tar files from any > server on same switch. After box freezes you can eject a drive from the > raid5 array and no alarms no trigger hot swap, no nothing. > > Additional information: > > Have replaced all components with RAID as well as disabled motherboard > nic and added Intel® 82544 Gigabit Ethernet Controller card. > > Have upgraded to latest motherboard bios. > > Solutions that seem to cause the problem to go away: > > If you plug server box with stock nic into a 10mb port no freeze occurs. > > Replace nic with a standard pci (I used 3com905b) and not use a pci-x > type nic all well and no freeze. > > I believe that it is an issue with the pci-x on motherboard. > > Any known issues or ideas on how to resolve? > > Many thanks. > ---------- > RJEnt > Providing Solutions w/FreeBSD > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ---------- RJEnt Providing Solutions w/FreeBSD