From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 16 7:37:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx01.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx01.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F1637B41F for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.189.215.109] (HELO there) by dc-mx01.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with SMTP id 41828753 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:46:10 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Aaron Seelye To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP problems with latest SUP and SCSi drives Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:37:31 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 16 April 2002 02:34 am, Pete French wrote: > > Maybe this two-part article will help: > > Part 1: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > > Part 2: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > > It covers building/using a debugging kernel and then recovering useful > > information from the dump after a panic. > > All good stuff - but when the kernel is frozen how can I make it panic ? > Is there some equivalent to the ALT-ALT-TILDE combination on NeXTs to > take me into some monitor or other where I can force a panic ? > > > Other things to try would be manually setting the IRQ of the scsi > > controller. I have two proliants(an older one using Pentium Pros and a > > newer one using pentium 3s) and they both use the ida driver for their > > on-board scsi(compaq smart raid). > > Thats interesting - I am running an ida SMART raid at home(no problems > there) but the work machines use sym. I'll drive out to the machine and see > if I can do that later this week though. Thanks for the help. The symbios scsi system is a totally seperate thing from the smart array cards. The scsi is always on the motherboards afaik (I have about 8 proliants), and the smart array is in a pci slot. Two seperate interfaces altogether, and the driver for one surely won't work for the other. HTH, Aaron Seelye To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message