Dual AMD64, APCI woes, 5.3 RC2, Help!

[Tom Krouper]

This e-mail may seem very familiar. It was posted back in September by
a co-worker, but I don't think he ever responded to the responses he
got. Here is the entire e-mail that he has sent. The only difference
from the original is that we tried installing 5.3 RC2 instead of 5.2.1
Release. I've also added the version of BIOS as requested by someone
on the list. In addition, I have not been able to get the ACPI
disabled install to work. (Though I'll admit I didn't take much time
trying to get it to work.)

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I'm trying to get another FreeBSD system up at our office for a
mission critical app. Unfortunately if I can't figure this problem
out, FreeBSD will be tossed and Linux used instead and I really don't
want that. We've always been a FreeBSD/i386 house, this is our first
foray into Opteron. Here's the particulars....

Rhapsody HDAMA-F (Version 1.89) mainboard
Dual bge 10/100/1000 nics
8gb ram
dual Opteron 2.0ghz cpus
LSI megaraid amr 320-2X raid controller w/128mb cache
Four ultra-320 15Krpm scsi drives, 35gb each

The drives are set up raid 10. A striped set of 70gb, then a 70gb mirror.

I'm using the amd64 ISO for 5.3 RC2

My problem seems to center around APCI. If I disable APCI in the bios
and boot off the install CD and select the boot without APCI, the
system comes up and installs just fine. However, it seems to only
recognize one cpu. At least, the sysctl variables I looked at appeared
to indicate just one cpu and the top display didn't have a cpu column.

If I leave APCI enabled, the system boots off the cd fine but when the
installed starts to probe the devices, it gets stuck just after the
line for the CD drive (acd0). I am pretty certain that that is exactly
the point where it's probing the scsi drives, because if APCI is
turned off - right after the acd0 probe is where geom starts and the
disk is recognized. The lsi controller is definitely recognized ok
further up in the probe display.

I'd just disable APCI to get around this, but if FreeBSD will only use
one cpu.... management will switch to Suse (which purportedly runs
this configuration perfectly) and I'd really like to stay FreeBSD.
Normally I'd just love to dive into the new and unknown (to me)
opteron/5.X/APCI stuff. But I'm completely out of time on this project
to get the machine up. Could anyone possibly offer me some quick
pointers or help on this? I've googled lots and so far not come up
with anything concrete, other than "disable APCI" which seems to leave
me with just one cpu.

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Thanks,
Tom Krouper