problems with ASR card/5.4

[Doug White]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Bruce Burden wrote:

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>
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>    Hi Doug,
>
> 	well, pulling cards demonstrated where the problem lie, but it
>    was not a hardware problem. By chance, I happened upon the "options
>    ASR_COMPAT" directive, and that solved my problem. However, the
>    GENERIC kernel configuration for i386 does NOT have this option, but
>    it does have the "asr" driver configured.

ASR_COMPAT controls some sizes of fields for use with the control ioctl. I
don't think this would case problems on boot unless you are running an old
control program at boot time, or whenever the panic occurs.

> 	Having one but not the other causes problems, as I discovered.



>
> 							Bruce
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:03:56PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 May 2005, Bruce Burden wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >   Hi folks,
> > >
> > > 	I am trying to get my Adaptec 3210S RAID running under 5.4,
> > >   and all I get for my trouble is pmap_ errors. Sorry, no dumps at
> > >   the  moment.
> > >
> > > 	If I compile "device asr" into the kernel, I get a message
> > >   about "could not copy LDT", and a panic about "pmap_enter:
> > >   invalid page directory" when the system moves from single to multi
> > >   user. (single user is no problem?)
> > >
> > > 	If I do not compile the asr driver, and "kldload asr" instead,
> > >   I get a panic from pmap_mapdev, instead.
> > >
> > > 	Any ideas? This is annoying, and I am seriously considering
> > >   returning to 4.11, where asr was working...
> >
> > This sounds like your system has severe memory corruption issues.  I'd try
> > a different PCI slot for your asr card first, then try the card in another
> > known working system and see if your problems appear there.
> >
> > Have you tested the system without the asr card installed?
> >
> > --
> > Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> > dwhite at gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
>
>

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