From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 17:53:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A97816A401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:53:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from cetus.palisadesys.com (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E5E13C4DA for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:53:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (serverwatch [172.16.1.98]) by cetus.palisadesys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0NHr7UD063871; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:53:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.2.242] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0NHr07B012971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:53:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <45B64B67.2000905@palisadesys.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:52:39 -0600 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <45B64469.9020002@palisadesys.com> <2a41acea0701230937p7c0f6400ida76a956fabd9b94@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0701230937p7c0f6400ida76a956fabd9b94@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:53:00 -0600 (CST) X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Palisade-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Palisade-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro X7DBR-8+ hang at boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:53:07 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote: > On 1/23/07, Guy Helmer wrote: >> Using FreeBSD 6.2, I'm having trouble with the Supermicro X7DBR-8+ >> motherboard (dual Xeon 5130 CPUs on the Blackford chipset - >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBR-8+.cfm) >> >> hanging after printing the "Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to >> settle" message. The hang doesn't always happen - sometimes we have to >> go through several reboot cycles for it to happen - but sometimes it >> happens with every reboot. For those who would suggest that this >> happens because I'm using Seagate drives, it happens even if we totally >> remove the SCSI drive (but leave the aic7902 SCSI interfaces enabled) >> and boot from a SATA disk. Using FreeBSD 6.1, the Intel gigabit >> ethernet NICs aren't found but the hang doesn't occur. > > Uh, just a wild stab, I dont have the Supermicro motherboard, but on the > Intel design its based on there is unfortunately still this problem > where the > floppy has some bogus wait in it. I thought this was fixed along the way > but I just installed RELEASE on Friday and saw it still occurs. It will > make the system appear to hang, look at the floppy LED, is it on? > If that is the problem you are seeing then it will eventually time out, I > get around it by defining the driver out of the kernel after install, > but you > could also remove the floppy. Sorry, there isn't a floppy drive on this system. > If that isnt it, I would suggest installing using ACPI disabled or > SAFE if > needed, and then tweak the kernel after. OK, thanks. > Have you checked the January snapshot of CURRENT to see what > happens there? I'll try it and report what happens. Thanks again, Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Chief System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.