Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:13:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Sinatra <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu> To: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -BETA2 and Thunder K8WE Message-ID: <20050818220650.I37401@rancid.net.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050819045313.GA32876@afflictions.org> References: <20050819045313.GA32876@afflictions.org>
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Damian Gerow wrote: > I just tried booting 6.0-BETA2 on a Tyan Thunder K8WE, to no success. > Even with the on-board SCSI disabled, the system hangs after probing mpt0: > it does the SCSI device settle delay[1], picks up the SATA drives, then > hangs. Under a 'boot -v', I get a whole bunch of cruft about detecting > devices on mpt0. The system fully freezes after it's done, though, so I > can't really pull much data from the dmesg. > > I've tried booting with and without SCSI enabled, to the same effect. I > haven't yet tried booting without ACPI, as the last time I tried that, the > system didn't pick up any drives at all. I have had the same problem; however, it does not hang when I disable the onboard MPT scsi in the BIOS. I have another Thunder K8WE that works pretty well, but I had to do all sorts of disablings and tweakings in the BIOS to get it to boot with SCSI still enabled. I'll have to check, but I also think that is running an earlier version of the BIOS. I haven't found any way to get the current (1.01) version of the BIOS to boot without disabling SCSI. Unfortunately, this particular box comes with a nice SCSI disk array. You might try enabling bus master on the SCSI and disabling the onboard nvidia ethernets (looks like the nve(4) driver is still a bit buggy anyway. The intel pro 1000 pci-x card works great using the em(4) driver, and a dual-opteron machine running 6-STABLE pushes line rate gig over short delay distances; haven't tested yet over larger bandwidth*delay product links. Using the intel instead of the onboard nvidia and enabling bus master on the SCSI allowed me to boot _one_ of the machines and I have 6-STABLE running on it. I haven't quite done enough research to figure out why, but I will try looking into it later today. michael
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