On 15-Jan-2003 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were >> removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked too) it >> would screw up the floppy driver. >> >> This sounds like black magic, but the explanation is that the aic >> driver has a very intrusive probe routine which sticks random bytes >> into whatever I/O locations it feels like and this appearantly is >> not liked by certain machines. >> >> Compaqs with all their bells and whistles could be particular >> sensitive to this, so try to disable the aic driver and see >> if it helps. > > I tried this. Now there is only the ahc driver (the only one needed) > compiled in the kernel but this does not help, the server still > hangs. I also removed the ata driver, without success. :-(
Is the ML370 a new box? I've heard rumors recently that one of the recent Compaq boxes effectively doesn't generate clock interrupts in SMP mode and there isn't a workaround for that at the moment. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
