From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 15 4:57:27 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 77A6337B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from imag.imag.fr (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D27C43E4A for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:57:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr) Received: from ormelune.imag.fr (ormelune.imag.fr [129.88.43.35]) by imag.imag.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0FCvNi00604 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:57:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from astazou.imag.fr (kowalski@astazou [129.88.43.102]) by ormelune.imag.fr (8.11.6/8.11.3/ImagV2) with ESMTP id h0FCvNE17210 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:57:23 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 References: <15026.1042634644@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Face: #v^9{p"~.e3TDs~r\ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:57:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <15026.1042634644@critter.freebsd.dk> (phk@FreeBSD.ORG's message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:44:04 +0100") Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 phk@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > 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. I tried this. Now there is only the ahc driver (the only one needed) compiled in the kernel but this does not help, the server still hangs. I also removed the ata driver, without success. :-( Any other idea ? Thanks. -- Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message