Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:42:35 -0400 (EDT) From: <rjent@rjent.pair.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Gateway 980 server freeze? Message-ID: <11113.204.184.227.254.1066070555.squirrel@webmail.pair.com>
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Greetings, I am having trouble with a new Gateway 980 server. I am running fresh cvsup RELENG_4, kernel is stock except for maxusers set to 512, ipfw enabled, and smp enabled. System information is as follows: Motherboard information is located at: http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/MOTHERBD/4000791/4000791mv.shtml The raid card is a LSI U320 LVD 2-Channel SCSI Array Controller. Box configure with raid5 +hotswap Symptoms: Box doing internal operations all well. Upon placing load on device through NIC box freezes. Reproducible via a scp of tar files from any server on same switch. After box freezes you can eject a drive from the raid5 array and no alarms no trigger hot swap, no nothing. Additional information: Have replaced all components with RAID as well as disabled motherboard nic and added Intel® 82544 Gigabit Ethernet Controller card. Have upgraded to latest motherboard bios. Solutions that seem to cause the problem to go away: If you plug server box with stock nic into a 10mb port no freeze occurs. Replace nic with a standard pci (I used 3com905b) and not use a pci-x type nic all well and no freeze. I believe that it is an issue with the pci-x on motherboard. Any known issues or ideas on how to resolve? Many thanks. ---------- RJEnt Providing Solutions w/FreeBSD
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