kern/60526: Post-PAE stable SMP machine freezes
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Fri Mar 19 16:20:15 PST 2004
The following reply was made to PR kern/60526; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at kuzbass.ru>
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 16:10:36 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 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?
Someone referred me to a EETimes article, and I have hundreds of Tyan
S2510/S2518 boards I can reproduce the problem on under multiple operating
systems.
Considering the ROSB4 is only ATA33, you probably want something faster.
:)
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