Subject: [Fwd: Re: 1.5.2, KFQSA & KA640]
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Schneider <ms@silke.rt.schwaben.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/30/2001 07:58:36
(I accidently sent this to Isildur only, not to the list. Sorry...)


It boots the kernel OK and starts to give problem in the middle of the
rc-processing.

Sometimes even later, but i can provoke it 100% surely with "heavy" disk
activity.
Usually, starting apache is enough.

The KFQSA then hangs.

ms



Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> how does it fail? do you manage to boot, and then have problems later, or
> does it bomb trying to init the cache, etc?
> 
> isildur
> 
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Michael Schneider wrote:
> 
> > No reaction the first time, so i'll try it again:
> >
> >
> > Hello Gurus,
> >
> > i recently aqquired a KFQSA for my MV3400. The card works fine, the
> > disks
> > work like a charm, and if i use a 1.5-kernel everything is smooth
> > sailing.
> >
> > Except for the cache on the KA640, thinks i. So i upgraded to 1.5.2 and
> > the KFQSA stopped working ("unknown controller error 0101511"). Same for
> > KA650 CPU's.
> >
> > So i disabled the cache in 1.5.2, and the KA640/KFQSA resp. the
> > KA650/KFQSA
> > combination works again. Then i got curious and tried the KA650 with
> > 1.5,
> > where the 650's cache is used, and bingo: no-go.
> >
> > So i declare: it's the cache.
> >
> > Has this been already noticed by someone? Or maybe even fixed? Like, in
> > NetBSD-current?
> >
> > Thank you for your support....
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Schneider                       email: ms@silke.rt.schwaben.de
> > Germany                                  http://www.vaxcluster.de
> >
> >             People disagree with me.  I just ignore them.
> >                          (Linus Torvalds)
> >

-- 
Michael Schneider                       email: ms@silke.rt.schwaben.de
Germany                                  http://www.vaxcluster.de

            People disagree with me.  I just ignore them.
                         (Linus Torvalds)