On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:04:56PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> 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?).

I don't follow you, do you mean you have a box with 64bit PCI slot,
one with 32bit PCI slot, and only the 32bit one has issues with the mpt
driver ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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