From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 08:19:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93A716A4A0 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:19:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2AD43D62 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:19:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k948JXYc078331; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:19:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <45236E94.5080308@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:19:32 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dermot Williams References: <4522E54C.7060406@qbrick.com> <1159948998.5170.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1159948998.5170.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Fredrik Widlund , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:19:45 -0000 A quick tour of the bce driver leaves a lot of concerns in my mind about how interrupts are handled as well as how work is segmented. I only have very limited access to a 1950 with this chip in it, though, so if anyone can provide better access (or maybe a shiny new 1950 for my lab!) I can look at it over the next week or so. Scott Dermot Williams wrote: > Frederik, > > Dunno if it helps, but we're running 6.1-STABLE on 1950s and the mfi > driver detects the SAS with no problems. > > With regard to the bce driver, I've been having the exact same issue on > this hardware - NFS triggers it every time in our case. I've upgraded > one of the machines in question to one of the 7- releases and the > problem is still there, unfortunately. > > I've actually ordered Intel PRO cards for these 1950s because we're in > the same boat as you in that we don't really want to migrate away from > FreeBSD. > > Sorry I don't have more or better info for you. > > Regards, > > Dermot > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:33 +0200, Fredrik Widlund wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to get FreeBSD working on Dell 1950 (and 2950), which is >> vital since it's no longer possible to buy 1850/2850 units here. >> >> Hardware: >> PE1950 Xeon 5130, 2GB 667MHz >> SAS 5I >> PERC5E >> >> 6.1-RELEASE: not possible since SAS drives aren't found. >> 6.2-BETA2: bce interfaces does not work at all, "watchdog timeout >> occured" every other second, and _no_ connectivity. >> >> We are also having problems with some PE1850 failing from time to time >> with "watchdog timeout" hangs, and have had to debug.mpsafenet=0 these. >> >> How can we help solve this issue? It would really be a pity to be forced >> to leave FreeBSD but we really can't afford to replace our choice of >> hardware platform. >> >> Kind regards, >> Fredrik Widlund >>