Re: Dell R610 lockups?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:40:25PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Some colleagues at BBN have several Dell R610s, purchased fairly
> recently.  They've been experiencing total hangs, from which they can
> recover only with the power button (hold 4s).  ctrl-alt-esc works to get
> into DDB, but after the hang ctrl-alt-esc does nothing.  The Dell boxes
> are pretty normal, with single SATA disks, 4 on-board bnx and a 4-port
> wm.
> 
> The lockup happens with a netbsd-5 (RC3 I think) install cd for amd64
> after doing an install and running from disk.  They haven't tried i386.

Do you know the difference between the r610 and the r710 ?
I have a r710 acting as a busy ftp server, and it's stable (running
5.0_STABLE from spring or so). But only one bnx interface is used
(out of 2 visible by OS, the other 2 are reserved for the remote management).

it has:
bnx0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
bnx0: Ethernet address 00:26:b9:74:17:c9
bnx0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 0
brgphy0 at bnx0 phy 1: BCM5709 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 8
brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto
bnx1 at pci2 dev 0 function 1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
bnx1: Ethernet address 00:26:b9:74:17:cb
bnx1: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 10
brgphy1 at bnx1 phy 1: BCM5709 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 8
brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto

mfi0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: Dell PERC 6/i integrated
mfi0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 1
mfi0: logical drives 2, version 6.2.0-0013, 256MB RAM
scsibus0 at mfi0: 64 targets, 8 luns per target
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 6/i, 1.22> disk fixed
sd0: fabricating a geometry
sd0: 97 GB, 100000 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 204800000 sectors
sd0: fabricating a geometry
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 6/i, 1.22> disk fixed
sd1: fabricating a geometry
sd1: 9214 GB, 9436000 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 19324928000 sectors
sd1: fabricating a geometry

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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