Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:49:34 -0400 From: "Robert S. Wojciechowski Jr." <robertw@wojo.com> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Have a RocketPort 8J PCI? Read this please! Was: RE: RocketPort PCI freezes on startup Message-ID: <A8924EDBB1C71B49B033F174C071493D029CE9@moe.wojo.net>
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Bottom line: So, does anyone have a revision D or higher RocketPort 8J PCI nearby? If so, want to take a picture of it so I can compare components? :-P Read below for the reasons. Well, I found out what could possibly be the problem: I called Comtrol and although my card is out of warranty, I was told that my revision C card (circa 1997) is susceptible to noise from newer and noisier motherboards (uhm). My symptoms were very similar to other cases they've had on Windows, where the machine would freeze during the rp initialization once in a while. He did tell me that a bypass cap value was changed in later revisions to filter noise from noisy motherboards, but the tech couldn't find the changed cap designator or new value for me on Friday. I'm not sure how long it will take, and as I need to ship this server soon as time is running out. I've tried various different bypass caps myself on the board (various common bypass values for tants, electrolytics and ceramics) with no success. Oh, and I found the exact part of the driver that is freezing: rp_pci.c: sPCIInitController rp.c: sReadAiopID rp.c: rp_writeaiop1(...); /* here */ I doubt that it's a driver problem though, but just throwing this out there for the hell of it. I've compared this section to the Linux driver from Comtrol and it's implemented nearly identical. --Robert -----Original Message----- From: Robert S. Wojciechowski Jr.=20 Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 2:17 PM To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RocketPort PCI freezes on startup I'm running -STABLE from Oct 5th and am having problems with a RocketPort 8-port PCI serial card. I thought everything was going great until I rebooted a few times and found it locking up during the hardware probing on the rp driver. FreeBSD finds the card and shows the correct hardware information but freezes right after it prints the information. This happens perhaps in 1 out of 5 bootups. I've tried moving the PCI card around, forcing specific IRQs, things of that nature but all have proven to be unsuccessful. I have also tried the driver back-ported from -CURRENT from http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/rp.tgz but it just froze the machine when kldloading. The machine is a Intel 810EAL mobo with a 3ware 6200 RAID card, onboard Intel NIC and extra PCI NIC (DEC/Intel 21143). Has anyone else seen something similar to this? I find it very odd that it only happens during some bootups, that worries me. Any insight is much appreciated, thanks! - Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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