From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 11 17:27:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE35014C3D for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:27:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA07579; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:27:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19991011201932.04dabe40@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:26:58 -0400 To: Mike Smith , dg@root.com From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199910120004.RAA02842@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Hotmail has troubleshooted the problem down to the NCR controller. It >> appears that the problem only occurs when using one of those. If they plug >> in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems >> disappear. > >We did this (you remember that we went through all this a while back, >right?), but we've also been seing reports from people that aren't >using NCR controllers. Could it just be a particular BIOS setting affecting things as well ? I didnt look at the issue too closely, but on the SMP box below, I was having inital problems until I re assigned the IRQs to be on more sane values if I recall correctly (e.g not 9/11 or shared with something else). I believe I also looked at some DMA settings in the BIOS, but it has been a while since I set this particular box up. On the box below, the IRQ values displayed in the dmesg, are not the same as what is displayed at boot up time. With it, I did get a few fxp time outs and such and the box did panic once. It could be something totally unrelated, but this discussion does ring a bell with me. Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: CPU: Pentium II/Xeon/Celeron (686-class CPU) Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping=2 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: Features=0x183fbff> Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: real memory = 536870912 (524288K bytes) Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: avail memory = 520007680 (507820K bytes) Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf029e000. Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: chip0: rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: chip1: rev 0x0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: 2 on pci0.1.0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: chip2: rev 0x02 on pci0.4.0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: chip3: rev 0x02 on pci0.4.3 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: fxp0: rev 0x05 int a irq 19 on pci0.9.0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: fxp0: Ethernet address 00:90:27:25:bf:8f Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 18 on pci0.10.0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: fxp1: rev 0x05 int a irq 17 on pci0.11.0 Aug 3 15:22:41 ns3 /kernel: fxp1: Ethernet address 00:90:27:0f:50:f3 ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message