From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 13:20:03 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 74C6A16A4CF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:20:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se (as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se [217.215.7.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448BD43FBF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:19:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from intersonic.se (magnolia.h.inter-sonic.com [192.168.2.2]) by as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD11D40A8; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:19:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FB000FD.5000504@intersonic.se> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:19:57 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031109 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guy Silliman References: <3FAFA9BE.20306@silliman.net> In-Reply-To: <3FAFA9BE.20306@silliman.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x 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: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:20:03 -0000 Guy Silliman wrote: > I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz > machine that works fine with Win2k server... but > I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at > sysinstall. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes > mentioned including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the > BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of > conflicts but no luck. > > I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the > onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. > I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x > issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. > FWIW, I had identical problems with two 1850's, one PII400 single CPU and one PII450 dual. Both are now running fine with 4.9-REL, the first with a SmartArray 221 and the second with a Smart Array 3200. There has been a few problems apparently with the sym driver for the built in SCSI and I'm not using it in either. For instance, I had this problem in 4.8-REL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/52331 where I had 8 drives but only 4 visible. I tend to agree with another poster that there are changes between the PII and PIII 1850 motherboards that makes the formar fail with 5.1 and the latter is ok. just my $0.02