From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jan 4 13:15:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05990 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05982 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:15:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00491; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:11:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901042111.NAA00491@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Richard Cownie cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, greg@uswest.net Subject: Re: Symbios & SC450NX In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:31:50 EST." <199901042031.PAA06403@lonesome.ma.ikos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:11:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm also trying to get an SC450NX system to work - the configuration here > is 2 Xeon 400MHz, 2GB of DRAM (8 x 256MB), one disk hung off the onboard SCSI. > > Problems so far: > > 1) the kernel on the boot floppy (3.0-RELEASE and 19981226-SNAP) crashes > Removing half the memory (reducing it to 1GB) cures this. Can you expand on "crashes"? We only have 1GB in the machine here, so obviously we haven't seen this one. It'd probably be fairly straightforward to track it down once we know what's going on. > 2) The onboard Symbios (NCR) 53C896 scsi doesn't seem to be recognized. You'll want to take this to -scsi. > Has anyone out there already solved these problems ? I'm glad to hear > the Adaptec SCSI works ok, though it work be better if the Symbios stuff > worked. The large memory is more serious though - the whole justification > for buying this machine is that it will allow us to run problems with > > 2GB of DRAM. My gut feeling is that there's something sized wrongly here; If Micron had come through with the SC450NX for wcarchive, I'd expect that David would have run into this by now; you might want to take it up with him directly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message