Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:36:54 -0600 From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" <charles_dinkey@non.hp.com> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Netserver LX Pro Install Hang Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C53134D@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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Most of the problems I saw relating to the remote assistant was configuration issues and firmware issues. The older firmwares were very buggy (please dont ask me the revisions, I have moved on to HP-UX Visualize Workstations and my brain is full :). The 0304 error is "Invalid configuration between memory sizes in banks". The LX Pro uses 2 banks of memory spread across the 2 memory cards, each card contains a 4 slots for bank 1 and 4 for bank 2. Sounds like you had mismatched ram... here are the guidlines that are given to us... Follow these rules when installing memory: Only one size and speed SIMM may be installed in each bank. SIMMs must be installed in sets of four. If installing only four SIMMs, install them in bank 1. -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Barnhart [mailto:swb@grasslake.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:05 PM To: DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1); questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netserver LX Pro Install Hang ----- Original Message ----- From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" <charles_dinkey@non.hp.com> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:39 Subject: RE: Netserver LX Pro Install Hang | The AIC chip is on the PCI bus, and your right, by this time EISA was only | kept to apease customers who did not wish to upgrade. Leave the remote | assistant card out, it will cause nothing but trouble. What kind of problems? I have two of those EISA monsters, and have never had any problems with them -- AND they've saved me from making a 20 mile round trip in bad weather more than once. | I recently moved divisions and got rid of all my Netserver documentation but | I will try to find out what slots share IRQ's with the integrated SCSI. | This is a big issue in the Netservers, there was no smart IRQ routing | algorithim at the time the LX Pro was released so some slots are forced to | share IRQ lines... That'd be nice. As it stands right now, the problem seems to be a defective memory controller on the main board. I built a custom kernel for the install floppy, disabling just about everything and I was _still_ getting hangs. I yanked the memory board and memory out and replaced it with the memory board + memory from an LX Pro 200 and now I'm getting a 0304 fatal POST error. Removing half of the memory from the memory board gets me booting again, but I still get hangs when booting FreeBSD. The other memory board works fine in the LX Pro 200, so I don't think the board or RAM is bad (although the database guy will be pissed if he knows he's down 128MB!). I even swapped CPUs to no avail. So, "Mark" from HP is on his way out with a new system board. Which will hopefully fix my problems. Strangely, the 166's CPU board is slightly different than the 200's is -- it's got jumpers that the 200 doesn't. When the tech gets here with my new system board, I'm going to see if he'll tell me what the jumpers are for and if I can run 200Mhz CPUs on it. The good news from all of this is that my HPDA controller is elgible for BIOS upgrade chips from Mylex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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