Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[User Freebsd]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Philippe Lang wrote:

> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
>
>> I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three
>> servers that I've upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is <1 year
>> old, the other two are 3 years old ... after getting
>> everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could provide
>> some very detailed traces, and core dumps, it looks like the
>> problem is the one thing common between all three servers:
>> the iir driver ... the two older machines are running Intel
>> 0CH RAID controllers, the newer one an ICP Vortex card ...
>> both were rock solid machines under 4.x ...
>
> I don't have lockups on my 6.0 server, but I confirm there is something strange with the iir driver. On dmesg.*, I can read
>
> iir0: Bus B: The SCSI controller successfully recovered from a SCSI BUS issue.  The issue may still be present on the BUS.  Check cables, termination, termpower, LVDS operation, etc
> iir0: SCSI-B, ID 3: MPI returned 0x00000048
>
> I have an INTEL SRCU42L raid board.
>
> Maybe that's REALLY a cable problem I have here?

have you tried changing the cable?  if so, and it still happens, then its 
probably not a cable problem ... in my case, three servers and two 
different controllers all lock up since 6.x and all are running iir 
drivers ...

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