Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950

Well that's another problem - the DRAC stuff doesn't work once FreeBSD
finishes booting (or, rather, the virtual keyboard doesn't work).

Dermot

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 06:30 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> I have a new 1950 sitting here ready for any hacking you want.  It has 
> remote console access (DRAC), etc, so I could install whatever you want 
> and give you full access to it.  Any other resources you need to work on 
> this, I can provide also.  Email me directly if you are interested.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> On 10/04/06 03:19, Scott Long wrote:
> > 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
> >>>
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