At 8:48 Uhr +0200 30.3.2005, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> There are two more machines, same controllers with a later firmware
>> revision, boards same family, only 64Bit PCI. When I put the NetBSD disks
>> into one of those machines, I found that they wouldn't even boot multi-user
>> before locking up. The boxes run debian with a

[...]

>It looks like an issue with the MPT driver, not scsipi or softdeps.
>Maybe the newer firmware have a sightly different interface with the
>driver ?

Swapping the controller cards between the machines made no difference, so
it looks like a 32bit vs. 64bit PCI issue (bandwidth?).

	hauke

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