Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950

Frederik,

Dunno if it helps, but we're running 6.1-STABLE on 1950s and the mfi
driver detects the SAS with no problems.

With regard to the bce driver, I've been having the exact same issue on
this hardware - NFS triggers it every time in our case. I've upgraded
one of the machines in question to one of the 7- releases and the
problem is still there, unfortunately.

I've actually ordered Intel PRO cards for these 1950s because we're in
the same boat as you in that we don't really want to migrate away from
FreeBSD.

Sorry I don't have more or better info for you.

Regards,

Dermot

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:33 +0200, Fredrik Widlund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get FreeBSD working on Dell 1950 (and 2950), which is 
> vital since it's no longer possible to buy 1850/2850 units here.
> 
> Hardware:
> PE1950 Xeon 5130, 2GB 667MHz
> SAS 5I
> PERC5E
> 
> 6.1-RELEASE: not possible since SAS drives aren't found.
> 6.2-BETA2: bce interfaces does not work at all, "watchdog timeout 
> occured" every other second, and _no_ connectivity.
> 
> We are also having problems with some PE1850 failing from time to time 
> with "watchdog timeout" hangs, and have had to debug.mpsafenet=0 these.
> 
> How can we help solve this issue? It would really be a pity to be forced 
> to leave FreeBSD but we really can't afford to replace our choice of 
> hardware platform.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Fredrik Widlund
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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