From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 15 4:44:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F1037B406 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39B143F13 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0FCi49O015027; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:44:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Nicolas Kowalski Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:34:50 +0100." Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:44:04 +0100 Message-ID: <15026.1042634644@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Nicolas Kowalski writes: >Fritz Heinrichmeyer writes: > >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:09:09AM +0100, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: >>> The server is configured for Unixware7, as told in the archives. >> >> our Compaq worked when configured for linux > >Nope :-(. > >I just tried this option, and the server still hangs at the same >point. I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked too) it would screw up the floppy driver. This sounds like black magic, but the explanation is that the aic driver has a very intrusive probe routine which sticks random bytes into whatever I/O locations it feels like and this appearantly is not liked by certain machines. Compaqs with all their bells and whistles could be particular sensitive to this, so try to disable the aic driver and see if it helps. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message