Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:41:05 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in aac driver ... ? Message-ID: <20030307143841.T18433@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3E68B7DC.2040701@btc.adaptec.com> References: <20030305224856.R38115@hub.org> <3E68B7DC.2040701@btc.adaptec.com>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Scott Long wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Evening all ... > > > > I have an Intel server (SVW7500, or some designation like that) setup > > with an Adaptec 2120S controller in it: > > > > aac0: <Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci1 > > aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 48MB cache memory, optional battery present > > aac0: Kernel 4.0-0, Build 5770, S/N 232fb7 > > > > Originally, when we installed it, we had a problem where, while booting, > > you would suddenly get the 'aac timeout' message scroll up the screen, > > that has/had since been fixed ... > > > > Yesterday, after doing some work on one of our servers to increase the # > > of vnodes, I added and built a new kernel with: > > > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE="(400*1024*1024)" > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(400*1024*1024)" > > > > Which I have running on venus (its using an AMI RAID card) without any > > hassles ... upon reboot of the Adaptec/Intel server, I once more am > > getting the Timeouts and inability to boot ... a kernel built 10 minutes > > earlier, without those options, but the exact same code, runs fine, so > > something with the VM_KMEM_SIZE increase is causing the problem ... > > > > Help? > > I'll investigate why this happens. How much physical RAM do you have in > the system? Can you put the card on the other PCI bus that's on that > motherboard and see if there is any difference? the server has 4gig of RAM, with KVA_PAGES set to 512 and the above settings for VM_KMEM_SIZE* ... As for switching slots, difficult as the server is a remote server ... :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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