From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 12:32:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF6F16A416 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:32:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from mail.ticketswitch.com (mail.ticketswitch.com [194.200.93.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0445A43CC8 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:32:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from [172.16.1.6] (helo=dilbert.ticketswitch.com) by mail.ticketswitch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gpl5X-000M6H-Lm; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:32:27 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ticketswitch.com with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gpl5X-0003Of-Fs; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:32:27 +0000 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, joao@matik.com.br In-Reply-To: <200611301008.18311.joao@matik.com.br> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:32:27 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Supermicro H8DA8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:32:29 -0000 > In first place thanks for answering. Seems nobody touched > your PR ... I also saw other threads describing appearently I know - which seems a bit sad as I am actually offering to give away free hardware to help solve it... I rather like the MSI board, but I have t say that I am hapier with the Tyan I replaced it with. > the same problem. But I got this kind of problem often with > SMP and not only with opterons and SCSI but also with Now thats interesting. It ist a speciicly SCSI thing BTW - it seems to be and external disc controller - though the only ones I have which arent SCSI are RAID. > athlon dual-cores. But until now I got all resolved with > setting the Bios better and sometimes even with changing > pci-slot position. You cant do that with the Supermicro board because the SCSI adapter in one the motheroard, so moving it to a different slot is a problem :) But I played around with all the settings I could and neer got it working. The only way for it to go SMP is to remove the SCSI and RAID addapters from the board and boot off the IDE. > Even if it says nothing I have some Tyan Dual opterons and > the MBs have the same chipset the Supermicro has and they > run fine. Indeed - the Tyan I relaced it with has the same chipset! > But on the amd64 MB list is one tested with 6.0-B saying is > working ... The boards can be made to work if you dont have SCSI - but I treat that ist with scepticism. It doesnt necessarily mean it will work for my combination of hardware. -pete.