Anyone success with SUN V40z?

[Olaf Hoyer]

Hi there,

just wondering if anyone has a SUN V40z with 4 CPUs successfully running 
with FreeBSD 5.3- Have had the opportunity to get hold of one machine 
for a few hours before "official tests" began, and there were 
reproducable errors regarding the SCSI subsystem.

During the installation, sysinstall came up, disks (RAID 1) were seen, 
partitioning/newfs went ahead, after copying the first distribution 
sets, the controller went hickup, and gave some timeouts/buffer related 
issues. (Sorry I didn't wrote them down, as I got only limited time with 
that box)

The box is currently deployed with RedHat, and after some minutes 
compiling, it also crashes sometimes- Do we only have bad luck with 
flaky hardware, that is being transported too often and being badly 
shaken, oder are there some issues with perhaps firmware revisions etc?

TIA
Olaf

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