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Date:      Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:27:39 +0800
From:      Rong-En Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
To:        Alexander Markov <proforg@tic-tac.ru>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IBM xSeries 335 and FreeBSD 5 STABLE. SMP problem
Message-ID:  <6eb82e0507191227109c49e7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0eae01c58c25$fedf1ac0$7601540a@am>
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On 7/19/05, Alexander Markov <proforg@tic-tac.ru> wrote:
> >If you unload kernel and load it again at boot manually, can 335 boot?
> >I have one 336 with 5.4 that must use this trick to boot, otherwise
> >it hangs after ipfw2 initialized. On the other hand, I have 3 335 instal=
led
> >with 5.4 running SMP smoothly.
>=20
> Nope, this trick doesn't work for me :-(
> And btw, do you have LSI Logic SCSI controller on your 335?

Sure. It is
mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0x2300-0x23ff mem 0xfbfe0000-0xfb=
fefff

I have tried it with RAID1 (with patch, performance is fine) and It can
boot with/without the patch. Anyway, I use gmirror now.

> I'll try to upgrade BIOS today, for it seems to be the only difference
> between my and people in the list's hardware.



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