kern/60526: Post-PAE stable SMP machine freezes

Eugene Grosbein eugen at kuzbass.ru
Thu Mar 18 18:10:15 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR kern/60526; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at kuzbass.ru>
To: Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, stable at freebsd.org, sos at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/60526: Post-PAE stable SMP machine freezes
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:06:41 +0700

 Doug White wrote:
 
 > I HIGHLY recommend using a DIFFERENT controller for disks. The ROSB4 is OK
 > for CDROMs and the like, but use a different controller for the system
 > drive.  Promise controllers work great. :)
 
 Hmm, I use SMP motherboard Intel STL2 with ServerWorks ServerSet III LE
 and integrated ROSB4:
 http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/STL2/
 I can't found any notes here about the controller.
 
 Could you please point me to any kind of "official" announcement
 from Intel, chipset or controller producer?
 
 > ATA tagging is known to work with only a few disk models.  You should
 > enable ATA tags ONLY if you KNOW your drive supports it, and test
 > extensively to ensure stability.
 
 It DID work with my IBM drive (IC35L040AVER, noted in ata(4) man page)
 before PAE intergration without problems. Now I turned it off - 
 it panices 4.9-STABLE under heavy load.
 
 Eugene


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