From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 07:40:25 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 175C637B404 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cronos.madness.at (madness.at [213.153.61.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2823243F3F for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 07:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mad-ml@madness.at) Received: from 213-147-160-52.adsl.ycn.com ([213.147.160.52] helo=madness.at) by cronos.madness.at with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.20) id 19eFML-000KdC-Ec; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:40:21 +0200 Message-ID: <3F1AA9C1.50605@madness.at> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:40:01 +0200 From: Alexander Marx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030622 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: naroz@gmx.net References: <20702.1058662939@www67.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20702.1058662939@www67.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM xSeries 345 freezes after 15 min. (4.8, 5.0, 5.1, current) 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: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:40:25 -0000 naroz@gmx.net wrote: > Hello, > > I'm really depressed and hope someone can help me here. > make sure you are running with the latest bios, they fixed quite a few issues wrt keyboard-input and console-redirection and stuff ... see http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-43902.html we also had problems with some recent x305en until we updated the bios to a version dated after 2003-06-19. linux 2.4 worked fine on them, but booting a 2.5.x kernel always resulted in an i8042 (keyboard) related oops. the newer bios fixed that. > Hardware: > IBM xSeries 345 Server, 2 x Xeon 2.8 GHz 533, 2 x 512MB IBM ECC RAM, ICP > Vortex GDT8514RZ RAID, 5 x IBM 36GB HDD U320. The server comes with an IBM > serveRaid 5-i controller but I replaced it with the ICP controller, because of the > known FreeBSD ips driver bug. > hm .. we are running them with the onboard mpt-fusion scsi-raid controller .. seems to work fine with fbsd 4.8; never tried a 5.x on them. > > Thanks. > hth, alex.