Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:57:25 -0500 From: "Jay West" <jwest@classiccmp.org> To: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Dual AMD64, APCI woes, 5.2.1-Rel, Help! Message-ID: <000601c4a047$8243f370$6400a8c0@HPLAPTOP>
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I'm trying to get another FreeBSD system up at our office for a mission = critical app. Unfortunately if I can't figure this problem out, FreeBSD = will be tossed and Linux used instead and I really don't want that. = We've always been a FreeBSD/i386 house, this is our first foray into = Opteron. Here's the particulars.... Rhapsody HDAMA-F mainboard Dual bge 10/100/1000 nics 8gb ram dual Opteron 2.0ghz cpus LSI megaraid amr 320-2X raid controller w/128mb cache Four ultra-320 15Krpm scsi drives, 35gb each The drives are set up raid 10. A striped set of 70gb, then a 70gb = mirror. I'm using the amd64 ISO for 5.2.1-Release My problem seems to center around APCI. If I disable APCI in the bios = and boot off the install CD and select the boot without APCI, the system = comes up and installs just fine. However, it seems to only recognize one = cpu. At least, the sysctl variables I looked at appeared to indicate = just one cpu and the top display didn't have a cpu column. If I leave APCI enabled, the system boots off the cd fine but when the = installed starts to probe the devices, it gets stuck just after the line = for the CD drive (acd0). I am pretty certain that that is exactly the = point where it's probing the scsi drives, because if APCI is turned off = - right after the acd0 probe is where geom starts and the disk is = recognized. The lsi controller is definitely recognized ok further up in = the probe display. I'd just disable APCI to get around this, but if FreeBSD will only use = one cpu.... management will switch to Suse (which purportedly runs this = configuration perfectly) and I'd really like to stay FreeBSD. Normally = I'd just love to dive into the new and unknown (to me) opteron/5.X/APCI = stuff. But I'm completely out of time on this project to get the machine = up. Could anyone possibly offer me some quick pointers or help on this? = I've googled lots and so far not come up with anything concrete, other = than "disable APCI" which seems to leave me with just one cpu. Please cc replies to jwest@classiccmp.org as I'm not on this list. Regards, Jay West
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