From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 13:36:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772C316A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlasta.net (wow.atlasta.net [12.129.13.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B31D843FF3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drais@wow.atlasta.net) Received: (qmail 87906 invoked by uid 1068); 1 Oct 2003 20:36:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Oct 2003 20:36:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:36:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Raistrick To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SCSI, SMP, and Supermicro, problems! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:36:25 -0000 [top posting another detail for the archives] Supermicro SuperServer 6023P-8R with the X5DP8-G2 motherboard. On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, David Raistrick wrote: > > Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions and help. > > Between Supermicro Support and myself we've decided to RMA the > motherboard...it seems to have various issues: > > Doesn't boot with tested-good recommended memory (Kingston > KVR266X72RC25/25) > SCSI related crashes with a UP 4.7-R GENERIC kernel > ATA related crashes with a SMP 4.7-R kernel when SCSI disabled (jumper > J22) > SCSI & ATA crashes with SMP 4.8-R kernel, with or without SCSI disks > installed. > > > Hopefully a replacement board will clear most of this up. I do know I'll > need to tweak the 4.8-R em driver to fix the watchdog timeouts, and I may > need to apply Richy's UNSWIZZLE patch down the road. > > The board is /very/ recent, dated 08/03...it's possible that it's just a > bad one. > > Fingers crossed! > > ...david (awaiting the advance replacement) > > > > > --- > david raistrick > drais@atlasta.net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --- david raistrick drais@atlasta.net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html