Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:57:23 +0100 From: Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 Message-ID: <vqoadi2lgek.fsf@imag.fr> In-Reply-To: <15026.1042634644@critter.freebsd.dk> (phk@FreeBSD.ORG's message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:44:04 %2B0100") References: <15026.1042634644@critter.freebsd.dk>
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phk@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were > removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked too) it > would screw up the floppy driver. > > This sounds like black magic, but the explanation is that the aic > driver has a very intrusive probe routine which sticks random bytes > into whatever I/O locations it feels like and this appearantly is > not liked by certain machines. > > Compaqs with all their bells and whistles could be particular > sensitive to this, so try to disable the aic driver and see > if it helps. I tried this. Now there is only the ahc driver (the only one needed) compiled in the kernel but this does not help, the server still hangs. I also removed the ata driver, without success. :-( Any other idea ? Thanks. -- Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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