DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

[Gary Schrock]

At 05:05 AM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
>I have checked on the DELL site for any updates to the BIOS/Firmware and the
>2 PE2850's are running the latest versions.
>
>BIOS A02
>Dell Backplane Firmware, v.1.00, A00
>Dell BMC Firmware, v.1.23, A03
>LSI Logic Perc 4e/Di, v.516A, A01
>
>Both machines have the same symptoms or the reboots at random times.
>
>I have now disabled the USB via rc.conf to see if the reboots still occur.
>On one machine I shall drop the PAE kernel and see if that increases the
>stability

We've been running a 2850 with dual processors for a while now, although 
we're only running 2G of ram.  I'm also running the i386 verson of freebsd 
instead of amd64 (since I couldn't decide whether I'd really gain anything 
by running that version, especially with my low ram amount).  We did 
initially have a problem with our add-on perc4 controller, but that was 
obviously a problem with that controller, but after that was resolved, the 
only issue I've had with it is the usb interrupt storms.  Since we don't 
use usb on that system, I've just completely disabled it.  After that, it's 
run flawlessly for about 6 months now.

>Regards
>
>Danny
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello
>Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10
>To: Danny Cooper
>Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
>
>What BIOS revision are you running in your 2850? Make sure all your
>firmware is up to date. I had problems with an slightly older Dell
>2650 trying to install FreeBSD until I flashed the latest RAID
>controller firmware. If this doesn't help, try running some
>diagnostics on the hardware. Dell has some pretty extensive
>utilities. I think you can boot a Dell diagnostic CD you download
>from their web site. It's possible you have bad RAM.
>
>At 11:50 AM 5/31/2005, Danny Cooper wrote:
> >With the kernel I removed all non-required devices
> >
> >Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI
> >controllers to make sure nothing would interfere.
> >
> >I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but with no success, the machine just
> >hangs when it tries to load the CD, still trying to work out a solution to
> >the problem, but it just seems these DELL 2850 machines are for Windows or
> >RedHat!!!
> >
> >DC
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Claus Guttesen
> >Sent: 31 May 2005 16:15
> >To: Danny Cooper
> >Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
> >
> > > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE and upgraded to -STABLE on a DELL
> > > PE2850.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Wed May 25 23:43:12 BST 2005
> > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > > real memory  = 5100273664 (4864 MB)
> > > avail memory = 4189892608 (3995 MB)
> > > MPTable: <DELL     PE 016D     >
> > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> > >  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
> > >  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  6
> > > amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Di> Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM
> > >
> > > I have disabled ACPI HTT and enabled PAE to make the whole system memory
> > > available.
> > >
> > > However the problem I have is the system can crash at any moment, and is
> >not
> > > load related. As the crash info below is when the machine was in an 100%
> > > idle state.
> >
> >I have the same hardware as well, running on the i386-port. I have
> >disabled usb with usbd_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. I have no idea
> >whether this helps but havent't had an issue with the 2850. Except
> >with a qlogic-hba and the isp-driver (I suspect) *on* amd64, but *not*
> >on i386.
> >
> >Claus
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