Gateway 980 server freeze?

[rjent at rjent.pair.com]

Greetings,

Additional information:

If I enable the 82544GC onboard nic and place the PCI-X Intel 82544Ei card
a pci standard slot (not pci-x) then the box hangs on boot at the megaraid
controller after sees raid5 stripe.

If I disable the 82544GC onboard nic and place the PCI-X Intel 82544Ei
card a pci standard slot (not pci-x) then the box functions great.


> Greetings,
>
> I am having trouble with a new Gateway 980 server. I am running fresh
> cvsup RELENG_4, kernel is stock except for maxusers set to 512, ipfw
> enabled, and smp enabled. System information is as follows:
>
> Motherboard information is located at:
>
> http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/MOTHERBD/4000791/4000791mv.shtml
>
> The raid card is a LSI U320 LVD 2-Channel SCSI Array Controller. Box
> configure with raid5 +hotswap
>
> Symptoms:
>
> Box doing internal operations all well. Upon placing load on device
> through NIC box freezes. Reproducible via a scp of tar files from any
> server on same switch. After box freezes you can eject a drive from the
> raid5 array and no alarms no trigger hot swap, no nothing.
>
> Additional information:
>
> Have replaced all components with RAID as well as disabled motherboard
> nic and added Intel® 82544 Gigabit Ethernet Controller card.
>
> Have upgraded to latest motherboard bios.
>
> Solutions that seem to cause the problem to go away:
>
> If you plug server box with stock nic into a 10mb port no freeze occurs.
>
> Replace nic with a standard pci (I used 3com905b) and not use a pci-x
> type nic all well and no freeze.
>
> I believe that it is an issue with the pci-x on motherboard.
>
> Any known issues or ideas on how to resolve?
>
> Many thanks.
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