Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:52:09 -0500 From: Guy Silliman <gws@silliman.net> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x Message-ID: <3FB00889.1070402@silliman.net> In-Reply-To: <3FB000FD.5000504@intersonic.se> References: <3FAFA9BE.20306@silliman.net> <3FB000FD.5000504@intersonic.se>
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well I might have some insight into this mystery.... I am currently running with a less then fully populated drive cage... I have 2 of the 3 1 inch 9.1gb drives in place. I have had them placed in the slot 0 and slot 1 position. And win2k server loaded fine but fbsd did not see the drives. On a hunch - I just moved the drives up so that the empty spot is slot 0 and the 2 drives are in slots 1 and 2... 4.7R saw the drives. 4.9R does not. Now I am new to this chassis - I don't know if I am supposed to have a blank in this empty slot - but it will not matter ot me in the long run, as I have another 9.1gb drive on its way to fill the empty spot.. I just hope I do not have a buggy backplane. Guy Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > 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 >
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