From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 22 12: 9: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from athena.lightningone.net (athena.lightningone.net [12.34.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457AD37B62D; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by athena.lightningone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA50759; Mon, 22 May 2000 15:19:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) X-Authentication-Warning: athena.lightningone.net: john owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:19:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Essenz Consulting X-Sender: john@athena.lightningone.net To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems... In-Reply-To: <20000522130135.A7235@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On the PIIIDM3 that I was working with I had both ECC and PC100 SDRAM. I forget what I had and when. I did though at one point have ECC unbuffered memory, and had ECC enabled. I will have some more of these boards later these week and will retest them, making note of what I have in there. I'll try ecc and pc100 individual and play with the settings, to see if I can find exactly what configuration is giving the problem. -john v. e. On Mon, 22 May 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:33:52 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. > > Well, one question is whether or not you have ECC memory in the machine, > and if so, if you have parity checking or ECC turned on. > > Mike's board doesn't have ECC memory, and I've been trying to find someone > with a SuperMicro 840 board with ECC turned on. (To see whether their > boards have the problem with the MRH-S chip.) > > As far as the 7892 chip, the driver should be pretty stable, I don't think > other folks have had trouble with it. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message