Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:06:42 +1000 From: Greg Wickham <gjw@deakin.edu.au> To: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> Cc: aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Update on Dells with 5.1.0pre7 Message-ID: <199808272306.JAA13168@hestia.its.deakin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:36:52 -0400." <Pine.LNX.3.96.980827111643.17003B-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu>
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On 27-Aug-1998, at around 11:36, "Robert G. Brown" wrote: ] Dear List Humans, ] ] I've spent the last couple of weeks after I got back from vacation ] testing and installing our Dell poweredge boxes with the new pre7 ] revision, and have the following observations: ] ] a) If I try to boot up a Dell system that has never been booted before ] with a boot floppy/kernel containing the pre7 aic7xxx driver, it hangs ] right after the timeout that occurs after downloading the sequencer ] and during the attached disk probe. The hang is the usual loop of ] annoying Parity errors etc. This is highly reproducible. I have found the same. ] b) If I boot one of the Dell systems and let Windows NT (preinstalled ] on the hard drive) get through its initial pre-installation routine, ] during which it (presumably) installs its own aic7xxx drivers and the ] like, and THEN boot from the SAME boot floppy, it boots "perfectly" ] except for the single timeout during the attached device probe ] previously reported on the list. Thereafter, it appears to work ] reasonably well -- I have now installed a dozen or so of the dual P2's ] with 7890U2W and 7860 U onboard adapters without (yet, knock on wood) ] any problems. I'm using a gigabyte tx-3 m/b with the 2940U2w card. I have found very similar to you. From experimenting it seems that if I do *NOT* have an IDE drive in the system it will fail cold boot linux with the parity error problem. If I boot '95/NT and then warm boot linux all is fine. However, to make my life much easier I left an IDE drive in the system. Apart from this glaring problem all seems ok. Am running 2.1.118 with pre7 and have had no errors at all. Even the 'make -j' stress test of the linux kernel resulted in no problems. (Running a tagged queue depth of 16). (I should point out that it never finished making the kernel. After an 90 mins of the HDD pounding away I kind of figured it was going to take all night - but this is a memory/swap issue) ] /* Other text snipped */ ] ] rgb ] ] Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ ] Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 ] Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 ] Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu ] ] ] ] ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ] with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lecturer Greg Wickham School of Computing and Mathematics ______________________________ Deakin University Voice: (+61 3) 5227 1381 Geelong VIC 3217 eMail: G.Wickham@deakin.EDU.AU Australia WWW: http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/~gjw ------------------------------------------------------------------ ifiHadaDollArfoReveRytiMeapErsoNaskEdmeWhatThisBottOmliNeisAbouT:) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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