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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 11:33:52 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Essenz Consulting <john@essenz.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, msmith@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems... 
Message-ID:  <200005221833.LAA05342@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 14:35:27 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005221431370.50297-100000@athena.lightningone.net> 

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Can you be more specific about "panicing"?  As far as details go, you're 
not helping yourself.

> I was doing a FreeBSD 4.0 Install on a fairly new Supermicro PIIIDM3
> motherboard. I eventually got FreeBSD 4.0 installed, however, during the
> install, it kept hanging up and panicing. After trying to do a bin only
> install, it took about 7 trys until it didnt hang up and panic. When I did
> get it installed, everything worked, and it booted. But if I go into
> sysinstall and try to do a post install addition of, lets say src/sys,
> same thing happens. It freezes up and hangs part way throw, and eventually
> will throw up a panic error.
> 
> Any ideas about the stability of the aix78xx driver for this motherboard
> and it's aic-7892 chip?

I use one of these boards on a daily basis; it's been very stable under 
both -stable and -current, although I don't use the SCSI interface very 
often anymore.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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