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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:20:34 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject:   Re: 6.0-CURRENT SNAP004 hangs on amr (patch)
Message-ID:  <430B5AE2.4020303@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0508230914480b7e2b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <70e8236f05070208212e36c375@mail.gmail.com>	<200507291318.24428.jhb@FreeBSD.org>	<70e8236f050807192628b0405e@mail.gmail.com>	<200508081311.51857.jhb@FreeBSD.org>	<70e8236f05080813372e406f44@mail.gmail.com>	<6.2.1.2.0.20050809162128.087f42a8@64.7.153.2>	<70e8236f0508230850b4f1aeb@mail.gmail.com>	<6.2.3.4.0.20050823120139.05395d08@64.7.153.2> <70e8236f0508230914480b7e2b@mail.gmail.com>

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Joao Barros wrote:
> On 8/23/05, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:
> 
>>At 11:50 AM 23/08/2005, Joao Barros wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a spare controller, exact same model I'm trying to use with
>>>FreeBSD 6 and that I'm willing to donate if needed / requested.
>>>I live in Portugal so shipping to Europe would be preferable.
>>>
>>>I'm available for any questions concerning this matter.
>>
>>I dont think its that controller.  I am able to lock the machine in
>>SMP mode without the AMR by generating a high interrupt load either
>>on the NIC or onboard SCSI controller or on a crypto card.
>>
>>         ---Mike
> 
> 
> Well, for me sums up to this:
> FreeBSD 5 with amr: ok
> FreeBSD 6 with amr: doesn't boot
> 
> And when I mean 'same controller' I mean what I have PERC 3/DC aka
> LSILogic MegaRAID 1600 Elite.

When you boot verbosely, do you see a bunch of retries?  If you do, let 
it sit until the retries hits 16k.  Maybe it's the same cam bug I'm 
seeing (I have a patch to try soon).

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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