From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 7 7:17: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599B937B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DB743F85 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h27FFlc00611; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:15:47 -0800 Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26572; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:16:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15810; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:16:57 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E68B7DC.2040701@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:16:44 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in aac driver ... ? References: <20030305224856.R38115@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20030305224856.R38115@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Evening all ... > > I have an Intel server (SVW7500, or some designation like that) setup > with an Adaptec 2120S controller in it: > > aac0: mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci1 > aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 48MB cache memory, optional battery present > aac0: Kernel 4.0-0, Build 5770, S/N 232fb7 > > Originally, when we installed it, we had a problem where, while booting, > you would suddenly get the 'aac timeout' message scroll up the screen, > that has/had since been fixed ... > > Yesterday, after doing some work on one of our servers to increase the # > of vnodes, I added and built a new kernel with: > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE="(400*1024*1024)" > options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(400*1024*1024)" > > Which I have running on venus (its using an AMI RAID card) without any > hassles ... upon reboot of the Adaptec/Intel server, I once more am > getting the Timeouts and inability to boot ... a kernel built 10 minutes > earlier, without those options, but the exact same code, runs fine, so > something with the VM_KMEM_SIZE increase is causing the problem ... > > Help? I'll investigate why this happens. How much physical RAM do you have in the system? Can you put the card on the other PCI bus that's on that motherboard and see if there is any difference? Also, as a tip, I don't read stable@ on a daily basis. If you (or anyone else) has aac(4) problems, cc:ing me directly will bring the fastest response. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message