V440 with 1.593GHz CPU has scsi errors on LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 controller

[Marius Strobl]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:15:40PM -0700, Herr Virek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Marius Strobl
> <marius at alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:57:45PM -0700, Herr Virek wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I have a four cpu V440 running current well for a while now.
> >>
> >> Tried to install on another V440 with this CPU and I have scsi errors
> >> until panic when booting off CD or a hard drive with 8.2 installed
> >>
> >> Has anyone seen issues with this particular CPU?
> >>
> >> http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1.8/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_SunFireV440_CPU.html#6788
> >>
> >> I've swapped disks and optical drives a few times.
> >>
> >> S10 U8 seems OK so I'm not sure where to start on this one. I've also
> >> tried with auto-boot? false and true.
> >>
> >
> > My V440 suffers from the same symptom at times. In that case a
> > probe-scsi-all in the PROM boot monitor doesn't report the disk
> > either or acts up in odd ways though, so I think this is due to
> > a defective SCSI backplane rather than an OS issue, especially
> > since these disks just work fine in another machine. If that
> > happens shuffling around the disks within the V440 for a while
> > typically helps.
> > If Solaris really doesn't have problems with this machine the
> > only other thing I can think of is that 9.0-CURRENT as well as
> > 8.2-STABLE but not 8.2-RELEASE have a workaround which disables
> > PCI bus parking if a Cassini device is present as these can
> > cause bus hangs if bus parking is enabled. This workaround
> > (which is based on information gleaned from the OpenSolaris
> > source) is intended for V480 with defective centerplanes but
> > might also help V440.
> >
> > Marius
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks Marius
> 
> Soon as I removed cas2 FreeBSD boots.
> 
> cas2: <Sun Cassini+ Gigabit Ethernet> mem 0x200000-0x3fffff at device
> 1.0 on pci4
> 

Have you tested how the machine behaves with a recent head or stable/8
and the card inserted?

Marius