Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:30:36 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Fredrik Widlund <fredrik.widlund@qbrick.com>, Dermot Williams <dermot@irishbroadband.ie>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950 Message-ID: <45239B5C.2030806@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <45236E94.5080308@samsco.org> References: <4522E54C.7060406@qbrick.com> <1159948998.5170.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45236E94.5080308@samsco.org>
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Scott, I have a new 1950 sitting here ready for any hacking you want. It has remote console access (DRAC), etc, so I could install whatever you want and give you full access to it. Any other resources you need to work on this, I can provide also. Email me directly if you are interested. Eric On 10/04/06 03:19, Scott Long wrote: > 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 >>> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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