V440 with 1.593GHz CPU has scsi errors on LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 controller

[Herr Virek]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Marius Strobl
<marius at alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:57:45PM -0700, Herr Virek wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have a four cpu V440 running current well for a while now.
>>
>> Tried to install on another V440 with this CPU and I have scsi errors
>> until panic when booting off CD or a hard drive with 8.2 installed
>>
>> Has anyone seen issues with this particular CPU?
>>
>> http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1.8/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_SunFireV440_CPU.html#6788
>>
>> I've swapped disks and optical drives a few times.
>>
>> S10 U8 seems OK so I'm not sure where to start on this one. I've also
>> tried with auto-boot? false and true.
>>
>
> My V440 suffers from the same symptom at times. In that case a
> probe-scsi-all in the PROM boot monitor doesn't report the disk
> either or acts up in odd ways though, so I think this is due to
> a defective SCSI backplane rather than an OS issue, especially
> since these disks just work fine in another machine. If that
> happens shuffling around the disks within the V440 for a while
> typically helps.
> If Solaris really doesn't have problems with this machine the
> only other thing I can think of is that 9.0-CURRENT as well as
> 8.2-STABLE but not 8.2-RELEASE have a workaround which disables
> PCI bus parking if a Cassini device is present as these can
> cause bus hangs if bus parking is enabled. This workaround
> (which is based on information gleaned from the OpenSolaris
> source) is intended for V480 with defective centerplanes but
> might also help V440.
>
> Marius
>
>

Thanks Marius

Soon as I removed cas2 FreeBSD boots.

cas2: <Sun Cassini+ Gigabit Ethernet> mem 0x200000-0x3fffff at device
1.0 on pci4

- Eric