Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:17:21 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Robert Eckardt" <Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware? Message-ID: <00c301c766c1$36276060$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070314215639.M99480@Robert-Eckardt.de>
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Robert, You have device driver conflicts with the hardware. Most likely it is the ata driver and the rocket raid card. The rocket raids are nice cards but I have had them blow up too. In my case I simply moved the rocket raid card to a different system where it was rock solid, and put in a promise card that was blowing up in yet a third system. I have a whole collection of hardware to play with. Unfortunately that is what happens when you work with operating systems that wern't preloaded on the hardware you bought. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Eckardt" <Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware? > Hi, > > for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server > as a host for VMware and several other functions. > > I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo > w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. > I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz > Celeron without problems. > After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the > system to "freeze" upon accessing an USB device when vmware was > running. > So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases > heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. > > Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work > on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was > on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with > VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance > were disappointing): > > 1)**ACPI off, "Assign USB IRQ" disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: > vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. > > 2)**ACPI off, "Assign USB IRQ" enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: > system "freezes" with network connections breaking, endless > messages > ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing > request directly > ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing > request directly > ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing > request directly > ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing > request directly > ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq..... > ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA=.... > g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=...., length=....)]error = 5 > typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, > nothing in the logs though. > > 3)**ACPI off, "Assign USB IRQ" enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA > card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 > started: > vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. > > 4)**ACPI on, "Assign USB IRQ" enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card > installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: > system "freezes" with messages above. > > So, what's the relation between the scenarios? > Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? > > Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running > on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making > additional tests, but I don't know where to start. > > I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system > consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI > taking about another 8W in idle-state. > For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS > or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and > why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling > ACPI. > > I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ > > Regards, > Robert > > -- > Dr. Robert Eckardt --- Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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