Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

[Alex Salazar]

On 9/15/06, Conrad Burger <conrad.burger at mxit.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone been able to solve the problem with the bce driver on 6.1-stable?
>
> I am running 6.1-stable(200609013)AMD64 on a Dell 1950 with a SMP kernel.
>
> The system boots up fine. When I copy data to an nfs mount the bce network
> interface times out and then resets. It never recovers from this state.
>
> From /var/log/messages-----------
> Sep 13 05:01:13 gold kernel: bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(5032): Watchdog
> timeout occurred, resetting!
> Sep 13 05:01:13 gold kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN
> Sep 13 05:01:16 gold kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP
> Sep 13 05:02:41 gold kernel: bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(5032): Watchdog
> timeout occurred, resetting!
> Sep 13 05:02:41 gold kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN
> Sep 13 05:02:44 gold kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Conrad
>

I was almost sure this problem had been solved by the 6-STABLE version
of sys/dev/bce/, a month ago, or so. I can't back it up, however, since
I'm currently using 7-CURRENT (i386) on my PE 1950, and this behaviour is not
present in this FreeBSD version.

By the way, is your server equipped with a LSI SAS 5/i controller, or
Dell PERC 5/i?

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Alex Salazar
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