Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:40:01 +0200 From: Alexander Marx <mad-ml@madness.at> To: naroz@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM xSeries 345 freezes after 15 min. (4.8, 5.0, 5.1, current) Message-ID: <3F1AA9C1.50605@madness.at> In-Reply-To: <20702.1058662939@www67.gmx.net> References: <20702.1058662939@www67.gmx.net>
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naroz@gmx.net wrote: > Hello, > > I'm really depressed and hope someone can help me here. > make sure you are running with the latest bios, they fixed quite a few issues wrt keyboard-input and console-redirection and stuff ... see http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-43902.html we also had problems with some recent x305en until we updated the bios to a version dated after 2003-06-19. linux 2.4 worked fine on them, but booting a 2.5.x kernel always resulted in an i8042 (keyboard) related oops. the newer bios fixed that. > Hardware: > IBM xSeries 345 Server, 2 x Xeon 2.8 GHz 533, 2 x 512MB IBM ECC RAM, ICP > Vortex GDT8514RZ RAID, 5 x IBM 36GB HDD U320. The server comes with an IBM > serveRaid 5-i controller but I replaced it with the ICP controller, because of the > known FreeBSD ips driver bug. > hm .. we are running them with the onboard mpt-fusion scsi-raid controller .. seems to work fine with fbsd 4.8; never tried a 5.x on them. > > Thanks. > hth, alex.
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