From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Jan 31 11:49:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25170 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25158 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA12557; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:49:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199801311949.MAA12557@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Tony Johnson cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:29:15 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:49:11 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" Hi, > I have experimented with my equipment and FreeBSD 3.0.971225. I have a > tyan titan pro atx motherboard with 2 dual ppro 180's. If I take > kernel.generic and put these options in and compile/install... > > > options SMP > options APIC_IO > options NCPU=2 > options NBUS=4 > options NAPIC=1 > options NINTR=15 > options SMP_INVLTLB nuke everything but: > options SMP > options APIC_IO > > Freebsd will launch the seconf processor and then time out. The OS will > no longer be able to access either my scsi drive of my aha-3940. BTW > FreeBSD is installed on the second channel of this card. I know NT > doesn't see the second channel for some reason , but glad FreeBSD does. the 3940 is a bridged pci card and doesn't work with most MP tables (the BIOS writers usually blow this one). See: http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/pcibridge.html -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD