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Date:      Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:05:52 +0100
From:      "Danny Cooper" <freebsd@as9105.com>
To:        "'Vinny Abello'" <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
Message-ID:  <20050601090555.BDF8143D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.0.2.20050601000748.048e6840@pop3.tellurian.com>

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I have checked on the DELL site for any updates to the BIOS/Firmware and the
2 PE2850's are running the latest versions.

BIOS A02
Dell Backplane Firmware, v.1.00, A00
Dell BMC Firmware, v.1.23, A03
LSI Logic Perc 4e/Di, v.516A, A01

Both machines have the same symptoms or the reboots at random times.

I have now disabled the USB via rc.conf to see if the reboots still occur.
On one machine I shall drop the PAE kernel and see if that increases the
stability

Regards

Danny

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello
Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10
To: Danny Cooper
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

What BIOS revision are you running in your 2850? Make sure all your 
firmware is up to date. I had problems with an slightly older Dell 
2650 trying to install FreeBSD until I flashed the latest RAID 
controller firmware. If this doesn't help, try running some 
diagnostics on the hardware. Dell has some pretty extensive 
utilities. I think you can boot a Dell diagnostic CD you download 
from their web site. It's possible you have bad RAM.

At 11:50 AM 5/31/2005, Danny Cooper wrote:
>With the kernel I removed all non-required devices
>
>Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI
>controllers to make sure nothing would interfere.
>
>I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but with no success, the machine just
>hangs when it tries to load the CD, still trying to work out a solution to
>the problem, but it just seems these DELL 2850 machines are for Windows or
>RedHat!!!
>
>DC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Claus Guttesen
>Sent: 31 May 2005 16:15
>To: Danny Cooper
>Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
>
> > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE and upgraded to -STABLE on a DELL
> > PE2850.
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Wed May 25 23:43:12 BST 2005
> > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > real memory  = 5100273664 (4864 MB)
> > avail memory = 4189892608 (3995 MB)
> > MPTable: <DELL     PE 016D     >
> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> >  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
> >  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  6
> > amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Di> Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM
> >
> > I have disabled ACPI HTT and enabled PAE to make the whole system memory
> > available.
> >
> > However the problem I have is the system can crash at any moment, and is
>not
> > load related. As the crash info below is when the machine was in an 100%
> > idle state.
>
>I have the same hardware as well, running on the i386-port. I have
>disabled usb with usbd_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. I have no idea
>whether this helps but havent't had an issue with the 2850. Except
>with a qlogic-hba and the isp-driver (I suspect) *on* amd64, but *not*
>on i386.
>
>Claus
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