Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 05:09:00 -0800 (PST) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Netra T1-200 debugging (was: Free Ultra2 in Silicon Valley, USA) Message-ID: <477229.94848.qm@web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20081104115722.GA28394@soaustin.net>
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--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
> Subject: Re: Free Ultra2 in Silicon Valley, USA
> To: "Marius Strobl" <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
> Cc: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com>, "mdh" <mdh_lists@yahoo.com>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 6:57 AM
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:30:42PM +0100, Marius Strobl
> wrote:
> > Anyway, the panic message provided isn't enough
> info to even
> > guess what the real cause is.
>
> I think I have more notes at home (not accessible ATM).
>
> > I think the easiest way to proceed would be to remove
> the remaining
> > NIC (is there a reason you disabled gem(4) for the
> on-board ones?)
>
> The kernels that we run are pretty lean; it's possible
> that that
> driver is not included. Or, are you talking about
> something in the
> hardware setup?
>
> > and mass storage controller drivers one by one and see
> when the
> > panic goes away.
>
> Is this something that can be done remotely? I'm a
> thousand miles
> away from the machines :-)
By the way, I'm pretty sure that there's no ATA controller in these. Should just be good ole SCSI. I mention this because I noticed Marius mentioned the ata driver in another message.
>
> > That said, my T1 AC200 is running fine and I've
> never seen such a
> > problem with it...
>
> These things have an add-in card with 4 more ethernet slots
> IIRC;
> could the difference in configuration explain things?
That's interesting. Any chance we could try and boot one (preferably 3 or 4 times just to be certain) with the qfe/qge taken out? The T1-200 supported a couple of quad gigabit cards (Sun P/Ns 501-6738 and 501-6522) which I've never seen before personally.
I haven't ever worked with a T1-200 myself. It does indeed look like an intermediate step, engineering-wise, between two very well-engineered machines (the T1-105 and the V120).
Marius, I'm curious - the T1-200 has dual-eri interfaces on the mainboard, similar to the V100/V120?
- mdh
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