kernel panic on AS100A

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:23AM -0700, Tom Ponsford wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I picked up a AS 1000A a few weeks ago. It has an EV5 300mhz cpu, 64MB mem, 
> and 3 disks attached to a KZPSC raid controller ( a DAC960), , which is 
> supported by freebsd.
> 
> When I first attempted to install freebsd in place of windows NT which was 
> on it, I upgraded the SRM firmware to the latest available, but got error 
> messages on bootup telling me to upgrade the firmware on the KZPSC from it 
> v 2.36. The install program continued to the setup menu but could not find 
> any disks attached to the raid controller.
> 
> I upgraded to v2.70 on the raid controller and the dmesg readout did not 
> show any error messages, BUT the machine get a kernel panic after mounting 
> the mfsroot complaining about a memory management fault.

Strange this is the fdc0 process.
Maybe you are getting out of physical RAM and the fdc driver fails to
handle this properly - 64M is not very much for such a machine.

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