Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:19:32 -0600
A quick tour of the bce driver leaves a lot of concerns in my mind
about how interrupts are handled as well as how work is segmented.
I only have very limited access to a 1950 with this chip in it,
though, so if anyone can provide better access (or maybe a shiny
new 1950 for my lab!) I can look at it over the next week or so.

Scott


Dermot Williams wrote:
> 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
>>
Received on Wed Oct 04 2006 - 06:19:45 UTC

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