From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 12:42:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F2937B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07A243FCB for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3NJdHZ06129; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:39:17 -0700 Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09667; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10364; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:41:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3EA6EBB7.6070104@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:38:31 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with SuperMicro SuperServer 6011D System. X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:42:25 -0000 Nate Lawson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, jeev wrote: > >>Hey guys, I've got a bunch of these: >>http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SuperServer6011D.htm >> >>I currently am trying to get 2 of them working, I've tested them all though. >> >>I have put 4.7 4.8 5.0 and upgraded and im still having issues. > > > I've used a similar one of these with FreeBSD 4.5R and it worked fine. > > >>-- DMESG OUTPUT -- >>Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. >>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Wed Apr 23 00:17:46 PDT 2003 >> root@ded16.bphosting.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/jeev >>Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0660000. >>Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc06600a8. > > > You need to disable ACPI on 5.0 and try again. Also update your BIOS to > the latest version. Try with a non-SMP kernel also. Check cabling and > termination. > > Your information below wasn't helpful for me since the errors > just said "something is timing out" and dmesg looks like there > are no problems. > > -Nate > The messages point to an interrupt routing problem. The strange thing is that it appears that interrupts are working well enough for CAM to probe the SCSI bus, but then later they start failing. Very strange. I also have no idea how a SCSI BIOS update will fix this. I have no experience with VIA-based motherboards from SuperMicro, but I hate to say that I wouldn't trust one. With 5.0, have you tried with both ACPI enabled and disabled? Often times system BIOS makers break one method or the other, but not both. Do you have any PCI cards plugged in? What happens if you run just a UP kernel? Scott