Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:32:22 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jamil Taylor <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> Cc: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: IDE panics on Dell Precision 420 (was: SMP & signal 11) Message-ID: <20010118003222.C10950@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3A664A43.F54854C@pobox.com>; from jamil_taylor@pobox.com on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:43:31PM -0500 References: <3A65DC2A.8A15BEE1@isi.edu> <3A66446F.51A10752@isi.edu> <3A664A43.F54854C@pobox.com>
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On Wednesday, 17 January 2001 at 20:43:31 -0500, Jamil Taylor wrote: > Lars Eggert wrote: >> Lars Eggert wrote: >>> processes get killed (signal 11) on a new Dell Precision 620 under moderate >>> load (kernel recompilation). This only happens if I enable the second CPU >>> in the BIOS, and the kernel has SMP enabled. This machine runs FreeBSD >>> 4.2-RELEASE. >>> >>> I know signal 11 is usually an indication of bad RAM or cache memory, but >>> I've been running the Dell system test for over 24 hours, and it shows no >>> defects there. >> >> I repeated this on a second, identical machine, so it doesn't seem to be a >> hardware issue. (Or it affects the whole series.) Is anyone running 4.2 >> successfully on a SMP Dell Precision 620? >> > I am running 4.2 STABLE on an SMP Precision 420. AFAIK, the 420 and 620 > use the same chipsets (my verbose boot looks similar to yours). My > kernel is different (simpler), however. I do not know if this could be > the cause of the problem, but I have never had to disable SMP on my > machine. > > Only strange things that have happened to me is removing `device ATA' > from kernel causes an immediate panic (machine is all SCSI). If you can supply a dump for this panic, we can probably fix it relatively easily. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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