Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 20:16:01 -0700 From: Michael Han <mikehan@mikehan.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Intel 815EEA board bad? Message-ID: <20010509201601.B49257@giles.mikehan.com>
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I recently reported[1] a problem with the fxp driver giving "SCB timeout" errors and dropping off of the network temporarily or permanently. I finally managed to get a serial console attached and can do a little more investigation, but lo and behold, the box spontaneously panicked on me, giving a "Fatal trap 10" panic for "panic: trace trap". I see that the only other instance I can find of this panic being reported[2] is, surprise-surprise, on a box with an Intel 815EEA motherboard. Research into the first problem indicates that similar problems are being reported on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, primarily on Intel 815E-chipset systems. Which brings me to my question -- is the Intel 815EEA board or Intel 815E chipset just bad news? I'd be sad to hear it, given that my friend and I just bought a box based on it, but there are at least two reported problems that appear to be linked to this hardware. If anyone's interested in investigating the problems, I've enabled crash dumps to be able to provide a full stack from the kernel in the event that the machine panicks again, and I'm willing to invest some effort into the problem with fxp. I'm not sure how long I can hold off my friend, who wants to install Debian instead -- though I suspect we'll find similar problems there. Is it possible this is just hardware errata? [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=15827+0+archive/2001/freebsd-hardware/20010506.freebsd-hardware [2] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=612074+0+archive/2000/freebsd-stable/20001224.freebsd-stable -- mikehan@mikehan.com http://www.mikehan.com/ coffee achiever San Francisco, California "And, just like it should in all stories about philosophers, it ended up in complete chaos." - Richard P. Feynman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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