Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950

Ok, even if that's true, I can give Scott a remote console anyhow via 
another means.  I haven't tried that yet, since the NIC was a 
showstopper for me.  We're holding on ordering some 1950's for this very 
reason, and we're getting close to being in a bad spot (need hardware, 
FreeBSD doesn't work well on it, uh oh).

Eric


On 10/04/06 06:38, Dermot Williams wrote:
> 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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