6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950

[Eric Anderson]

Scott,

I have a new 1950 sitting here ready for any hacking you want.  It has 
remote console access (DRAC), etc, so I could install whatever you want 
and give you full access to it.  Any other resources you need to work on 
this, I can provide also.  Email me directly if you are interested.

Eric


On 10/04/06 03:19, Scott Long wrote:
> A quick tour of the bce driver leaves a lot of concerns in my mind
> about how interrupts are handled as well as how work is segmented.
> I only have very limited access to a 1950 with this chip in it,
> though, so if anyone can provide better access (or maybe a shiny
> new 1950 for my lab!) I can look at it over the next week or so.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> Dermot Williams wrote:
>> Frederik,
>>
>> Dunno if it helps, but we're running 6.1-STABLE on 1950s and the mfi
>> driver detects the SAS with no problems.
>>
>> With regard to the bce driver, I've been having the exact same issue on
>> this hardware - NFS triggers it every time in our case. I've upgraded
>> one of the machines in question to one of the 7- releases and the
>> problem is still there, unfortunately.
>>
>> I've actually ordered Intel PRO cards for these 1950s because we're in
>> the same boat as you in that we don't really want to migrate away from
>> FreeBSD.
>>
>> Sorry I don't have more or better info for you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dermot
>>
>> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:33 +0200, Fredrik Widlund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get FreeBSD working on Dell 1950 (and 2950), which is 
>>> vital since it's no longer possible to buy 1850/2850 units here.
>>>
>>> Hardware:
>>> PE1950 Xeon 5130, 2GB 667MHz
>>> SAS 5I
>>> PERC5E
>>>
>>> 6.1-RELEASE: not possible since SAS drives aren't found.
>>> 6.2-BETA2: bce interfaces does not work at all, "watchdog timeout 
>>> occured" every other second, and _no_ connectivity.
>>>
>>> We are also having problems with some PE1850 failing from time to time 
>>> with "watchdog timeout" hangs, and have had to debug.mpsafenet=0 these.
>>>
>>> How can we help solve this issue? It would really be a pity to be forced 
>>> to leave FreeBSD but we really can't afford to replace our choice of 
>>> hardware platform.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Fredrik Widlund
>>>
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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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