Supermicro X7DBR-8+ hang at boot

[Guy Helmer]

Jack Vogel wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Guy Helmer <ghelmer at palisadesys.com> wrote:
>> Using FreeBSD 6.2, I'm having trouble with the Supermicro X7DBR-8+
>> motherboard (dual Xeon 5130 CPUs on the Blackford chipset -
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBR-8+.cfm) 
>>
>> hanging after printing the "Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to
>> settle" message.  The hang doesn't always happen - sometimes we have to
>> go through several reboot cycles for it to happen - but sometimes it
>> happens with every reboot.  For those who would suggest that this
>> happens because I'm using Seagate drives, it happens even if we totally
>> remove the SCSI drive (but leave the aic7902 SCSI interfaces enabled)
>> and boot from a SATA disk.  Using FreeBSD 6.1, the Intel gigabit
>> ethernet NICs aren't found but the hang doesn't occur.
>
> Uh, just a wild stab, I dont have the Supermicro motherboard, but on the
> Intel design its based on there is unfortunately still this problem 
> where the
> floppy has some bogus wait in it. I thought this was fixed along the way
> but I just installed RELEASE on Friday and saw it still occurs. It will
> make the system appear to hang, look at the floppy LED, is it on?
> If that is the problem you are seeing then it will eventually time out, I
> get around it by defining the driver out of the kernel after install, 
> but you
> could also remove the floppy.
Sorry, there isn't a floppy drive on this system.
> If that isnt it, I would suggest installing using ACPI disabled or 
> SAFE if
> needed, and then tweak the kernel after.
OK, thanks.
> Have you checked the January snapshot of CURRENT to see what
> happens there?
I'll try it and report what happens.
Thanks again,
Guy

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Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Chief System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.