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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 15:19:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Essenz Consulting <john@essenz.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005221517040.50736-100000@athena.lightningone.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000522130135.A7235@panzer.kdm.org>

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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
> 
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