Compaq Proliant 1500 / SMP - Success

[Jason Taylor]

Jon Gross wrote:
> Have you seen this after setting all of this up?
> 
> MODE_SENSE_BIG
> resetting ata0...
> repeat ad nauseum....
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor at bastyr.edu>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:40 AM
> Subject: Compaq Proliant 1500 / SMP - Success
> 
> 
> 
>>The info on hw.physmem in this thread mostly did the trick for me:
>>
> 
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> 
>>Setting hw.physmem was the first part of the puzzle.  However, as was
>>one of the thread participants, I was getting a fatal trap 12 when I
>>enabled APIC.  Just so I could tell myself I'd tried everything, I
>>changed the APIC mode from "Full Table Mapped" (I had had 4.7 installed
>>and running properly set that way) to "Full Table".  To my surprise, it
>>worked beautifully!
>>
>>System:
>>Compaq Proliant 1500 (E12)
>>Dual P-133
>>SMART Array Controller firmware revision 2.26
>>5 4.3GB SCSI drives
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No, but I think that is about the spot where it would freeze during 
device probing if I didn't set the physical memory size.  I can test to 
find out for sure if it'd help you?