Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:38:54 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Lars Fredriksen <fredriks@Mcs.Net> Cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, lars@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent (last two days) smp kernel is hanging for me Message-ID: <199706241938.NAA12340@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:18:16 CDT." <199706241918.OAA19076@Mercury.mcs.net>
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Lars, --- which of the above addresses is preferred for contacting you: fredriks@Mcs.Net or lars@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net --- > This morning when I booted the SMP kernel with the lock fixes I let > it sit for about 10 minutes or so after it got hung and I did get > error messages from the scsi driver where it said that it timed out > "Timeout SCB handled by another timeout" > on the controller that has the swapdevices on it which to me indicates > that the kernel does not see the interrupt back from the controller board. > Now I am making one hell of an assumption here, and that is that the > firmware download and initialization of the board succeeded. The dmesg > did indicate that. Now I'll do one more test and that is to comment > out the swapon in /etc/rc. I expect that if I do that, the machine will > just fail to mount any of the file systems that is connected through > the second (ahc0) controller. Now from what I can see, ahc0 is sharing > the interrupt with vga and ethernet controllers, even though they seem > to be steered to different pins(?) by means of pci0.19.0, pci.18.0, and > so forth. So it seems we are back to the odd mptable contents. This would certainly explain a missing INT. The supermicro site lists the P6DNE as curently using BIOS version 1.1, which version are you using? -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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