Dell SC440 and Broadcom 5787

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 7 15:16:53 UTC 2006


On Monday 06 November 2006 20:30, Wes Zuber wrote:
> If we disable the NIC then everything loads as it should. We have  
> several of these boxes from Dell. We tried it on another to make  
> sure, but got the same results.
> 
> We did not run memitest86 as disabling the NIC seemed to make  
> everything work, plus it seemed to crash right after the the NIC  
> driver load. This is our first try with an SC440. We have been using  
> SC400, SC420 and SC430.

David, could this be related to the IPMI fixes in 6.2 and HEAD?  Wes,
try a kernel from RELENG_6 instead perhaps.

> Thanks,
> 
> --Wes
> 
> On Nov 6, 2006, at 5:14 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> 
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> We are experiencing kernel panics for FreeBSD 6.1 release. cvsup to
> >> the latest.
> >>
> >> I recompiled the kernel with the latest bge drivers but I still get
> >> the same error.
> >>
> >> bge0 <broadcom unknown BCM5787 ASIC Rev 0xb002
> >> mem 0xefcf000-0xefcfffff
> >> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4
> >>
> >> kernel trap 19 with interrupts disabled
> >>
> >> NMI ISA a0 Eisa ff
> >>
> >> Ram Parity error, likely Hardware failure
> >> Fatal trap 19: non-maskeble interrupt trap while in kernel mode
> >>
> >> Instuction pointer = 0x20:oxc0817f10
> >> stack pointer = 0x28:0xc0c20880
> >> frame pointer = 0x29:0xc0c208a4
> >> code segment = base 0x0
> >> limit 0xfffff, tpe ox1b = dpl 0, pres 1, def 32, granl
> >> processor eflags = IPOL = 0
> >> current Process = 0 (swapper)
> >> trap number =19
> >> panic: non-maskeble interrupt trap
> >> uptime 1ms
> >
> > Looks like the OS is reporting a memory parity error.  Does the
> > OS run with the LOM disabled?  Does the LOM work correctly under
> > another OS?  Did you run memtest86+ on the system to verify the
> > memory?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> 
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