On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:25:45AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > 2012/1/9 Daniel Kalchev <dan...@digsys.bg>: > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > >> Small correction: ??these are AMD Opteron 6218 CPUs, not 2218. > >> > >>> Hardware (alphadrive): > >>> ??Chenbro 5U rackmount chassis with 24 hot-swap drive bays > >>> ??SuperMicro H8DGi-F motherboard > >>> ??AMD Opteron 6218 CPU (8-cores at 2.0 GHz) > > > > You meant Opteron 6128 perhaps? > > Yes, 6128. Aren't typos fun? :) > > > This looks weird coincidence indeed and considering the comments so far I > > too would question ACPI (BIOS revision, settings etc) and the possibility > > for some hardware going bad. > > I've upgraded the BIOS to v2.00 same as betadrive. However, using the > exact same BIOS settings as betadrive causes the SATA controllers and > onboard igb(4) interfaces to not be detected. At all. Nothing in > dmesg or pciconf. Resetting BIOS settings to "Failsafe settings" > shows the SATA controllers and onboard NICs. Now the fun begins to > figure out which setting in the BIOS is causing this. > > I'm starting to lean toward a hardware issue with either the CPU > (since most of the chipset is in the CPU nowadays) or the motherboard. > > Have a few more tests to run to try and narrow things down.
Probably goes without saying, but: I would report *all* of this behaviour to Supermicro Technical Support. What you could be experiencing is simply a BIOS bug, they should be able to help if you figure out what particular setting causes the problem. For an example of just how nonsensical some BIOS behaviours are, here's a bug report I submit to Shuttle regarding how disabling the Firewire controller on their system resulted in a box that wouldn't even start up: http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/shuttle-sg45h7-firewire-bug-in-bios-sg45u10o/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
