about thumper aka sun fire x4500

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi, all,

Am 17.01.2012 um 18:59 schrieb peter h <peter at hk.ipsec.se>:

> I have been beating on of these a few days, i have udes freebsd 9.0 and 8.2
> Both fails when i engage > 10 disks, the system craches and messages :
> "Hyper transport sync flood" will get into the BIOS errorlog ( but nothing will
> come to syslog since reboot is immediate)
> 
> Using a zfs radz of 25 disks and typing "zpool scrub" will bring the system down in seconds.
> 
> Anyone using a x4500 that can comfirm that it works ? Or is this box broken ?

Well, I hate to write that, but ... does it work with the vendor supported [tm] OS?
If yes, you can rule out a hardware defect. I would at least try Solaris for this reason.
If no, the HW is broken and there is no need to look for a fault on FreeBSD's side.

Kind regards,
Patrick