3com 3c905 watchdog error

[Thomas Farrell]

Is that an ISA card? If so 3com use to have a utility to change IRQ & DMA. I
have used it with building LRP boxes. It may be quicker to test with another
card you may find there is someother problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Hayes" <pzhayes at swbell.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: 3com 3c905 watchdog error


> Undoubtedly this problem has been covered many times. I am not very savy
> with Freebsd.
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> I am using Freebsd 4.9 compiled for use with smp. The system has a Promise
> Fasttrak tx2 100 raid card using 4x40 in a raid 0, which is currently
acting
> as a small file server for my lan. Whenever I copy large files or a large
> number of smaller files (mp3's) off the server the system reboots or worse
> yet it reboots. The system has a 3com 3c905b-tx nic in the system. I have
> noticed that if I set my other machine, to which I wish to copy the files
> to, to run at 10mbit's and leave the freebsd box at 100mbit/sec the crash
> takes much longer to happen. Normally it would crash within 3-5 minutes,
so
> not immediately, and much longer, say 20 minutes if I copy at 10mbit/sec.
I
> have also noticed that if I copy 1 600 meg file off, it will not crash,
yet
> if I copy 100 mp3's off, it crashes. The system is also running apache,
> sendmail and bind. Initially I was getting xl0 timeout errors. After doing
> some googling I discovered the possibility of a irq conflict. I
immediately
> took out any other cards in the system, sound/decoder, and moved the
network
> card and promise raid controllers around in slots until the bios post
screen
> showed no irq sharing or conflict. Yet the problem still remains. It is
here
> now that I've noticed that occasionally instead of locking up, it will
just
> reboot, although still most of the time it locks up.
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> System information is:
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> Abit Bp6 with dual Celeron 366's.
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> Standard ide boot drive
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> 4 ide 40 gig western digital drives on promise fasttrak tx2 100 raid
> controller
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> 3com 3c905b-tx nic
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> Nvidia geforce 2 video
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> I think that's about all the standard stuff, nothing else in there.
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> Any help would really be appreciated
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> Pat
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> P.S. Please accept in advance my apologies if this seems too simple or a
> dead subject, as I have just joined the mailing list. I really enjoy using
> freebsd, just seems easier than all the linux distro's.
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