about thumper aka sun fire x4500

[peter h]

On Tuesday 17 January 2012 22.52, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> Am 17.01.2012 um 18:59 schrieb peter h <peter at hk.ipsec.se>:
> 
> > I have been beating on of these a few days, i have udes freebsd 9.0 and 8.2
> > Both fails when i engage > 10 disks, the system craches and messages :
> > "Hyper transport sync flood" will get into the BIOS errorlog ( but nothing will
> > come to syslog since reboot is immediate)
> > 
> > Using a zfs radz of 25 disks and typing "zpool scrub" will bring the system down in seconds.
> > 
> > Anyone using a x4500 that can comfirm that it works ? Or is this box broken ?
> 
> Well, I hate to write that, but ... does it work with the vendor supported [tm] OS?
> If yes, you can rule out a hardware defect. I would at least try Solaris for this reason.
> If no, the HW is broken and there is no need to look for a fault on FreeBSD's side.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Patrick

Yes, this computer stayus alive and works well with nexenta core ( a clone of sun-os)

The conclusion is that something is missing in the dealing with hypertransport.

A valid question might be : will other systems using hypertransport work or fail ?
Is it a smb-issue ? Or is the problem specific for thumper hardware ?
> 

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