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Date:      20 Aug 2001 09:18:25 -0700
From:      Jon Noack <noackjr@compgeek.com>
To:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Bye bye dear SMP-system
Message-ID:  <20010820161825.1908.cpmta@c017.sfo.cp.net>

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I have 2 machines running dual Celeron 500s on BP6s.  The only problems
I have come across have had to do with the HPT366 controller.  I use IBM
75GXP hard drives in the machines and enabled tagged queuing (using the
'hw.ata.tags="1"' line in /boot/loader.conf).  Under heavy reads (but not
heavy writes - weird), the kernel would post an "ad0: READ command timeout
<snip> resetting" error followed by an "ad0: invalidating queued requests"
error.  That was shortly followed by a hard lock.  I tried 'hw.ata.wc="1"'
instead and have had no problems (except if and when the UPS dies).  I
could reproduce the error by cvsuping my source tree to RELENG_4_3.  The
first time was fine, as there was some writing because several items were
being updated (from 4.3-release).  Later attempts (which were almost
solely reads) always resulted in a hard lock.

Jon

On Mon, 20 August 2001, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:

<snip>

> So, a few questions:
> (1) Is late 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-RC unstable in SMP mode? I suspect not,
> 
> (2) How to go about catching the lock? Console doesn't show anything, 
> the machines simply freezes over,
> 
> (3) Any BP6-user with similar experience that have any ideas?

<snip>

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