Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:19:11 -0500 From: Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/139654: CD-boot failure on newer IBM server Message-ID: <4B326D2F.5000708@greatbaysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <200912100832.51523.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4AF2E837.2080705@greatbaysoftware.com> <4B1FBBFD.3080301@greatbaysoftware.com> <200912100832.51523.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 10:02:21 am Charles Owens wrote: >> Charles Owens wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> As detailed in the PR, we are unable to get FreeBSD (7.1) to boot with >>> an IBM System x3250 M2 server. I'm not sure what steps to take next, >>> and would greatly appreciate assistance. >>> >>> We've also submitted kern/139653 which deal with different hardware (HP) >>> and is not quite as critical (very poor performance, as opposed to >>> complete failure)... any suggestions with this also welcome. >>> >>> PR links: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/139654 >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/139653 >> >> Tying up this loose thread... PR kern/139654 turns out to be duplicate >> of kern/103602. Patch in PR from Alexander Motin (mav@) appears to >> resolve our issue (works fine in 7.1 but must be applied by hand). Our >> thanks to him for his generous support. > > Does the same patch address 139653 at all? > Fundamentally, it doesn't appear to help. With patch in place it appears that the READ_BIG error message pops up much less during use of the CDROM drive, but the main concern, sluggish performance, is very much still present. Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc.
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