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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:47:12 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMPng stability
Message-ID:  <20001116184711.A11857@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <14868.6549.513864.420865@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0500
References:  <14867.63252.979175.633781@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <8v1245$7d8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20001116182212.A11802@cicely8.cicely.de> <14868.6549.513864.420865@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Bernd Walter writes:
>  > 
>  > Christians box always booted into single user mode if I remember right.
>  > I asume it has something to do with the number of controllers/disks that
>  > he has more luck.
>  > It takes longer than 5 seconds for my SCSI probing ;)
> 
> I did not know this; I had thought all pc164 boxes were toast.
> Do we know the exact differences between your box and Christian's?

I have a PC164 at 500MHz with an xl Netcard, 3 sym controllers (2x810a 1x895)
and an ide disk. Of course several scsi disks and one cdrom.
Seriel console at 9600.
It has 256M RAM - I tested both 4x64M and 8x32M SIMMs as I had the chance
to exchange it during the test phase.

AFAIK Christian has at least one sym controller and is using vga console.
I don't know anything else about it.

What I will try next is plugging a keyboard in and I will setting up
an IDE only kernel to see if any of these make a difference.

> 
> <...>
>  > 
>  > Use the latest source.
>  > John had commited something related WITNESS today.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
> 
> Do you have everything up to and including rev 1.108  of
> src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c?  And do you still panic on boot?

No I have 1.105 which was the latest this morning.
What I wanted to say is that 1.108 might run and it's not worth
compiling with an older version.
I hadn't the time to check 1.108.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de



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