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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:37:31 -0700
From:      Aaron Seelye <aseelye@urx.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP problems with latest SUP and SCSi drives
Message-ID:  <auto-000041828753@dc-mx01.cluster1.charter.net>
In-Reply-To: <E16xPLo-000PNr-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Tuesday 16 April 2002 02:34 am, Pete French wrote:
> > 	Maybe this two-part article will help:
> > Part 1: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> > Part 2: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> > 	It covers building/using a debugging kernel and then recovering useful
> > information from the dump after a panic.
>
> All good stuff - but when the kernel is frozen how can I make it panic ?
> Is there some equivalent to the ALT-ALT-TILDE combination on NeXTs to
> take me into some monitor or other where I can force a panic ?
>
> > 	Other things to try would be manually setting the IRQ of the scsi
> > controller.  I have two proliants(an older one using Pentium Pros and a
> > newer one using pentium 3s) and they both use the ida driver for their
> > on-board scsi(compaq smart raid).
>
> Thats interesting - I am running an ida SMART raid at home(no problems
> there) but the work machines use sym. I'll drive out to the machine and see
> if I can do that later this week though. Thanks for the help.

The symbios scsi system is a totally seperate thing from the smart array 
cards.  The scsi is always on the motherboards afaik (I have about 8 
proliants), and the smart array is in a pci slot.  Two seperate interfaces 
altogether, and the driver for one surely won't work for the other.

HTH,

Aaron Seelye

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