So even using the sq0 interface it continues to crash the same way.

In the name of science, I've also checked the bus speed on my 3 other
Challenge S systems and they are all 25mhz (including the one R4400
system I have).  The others are R5000 150 and 180 mhz.

-Jesse

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Jesse Darrone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm, that's curious.  I do have 4 of these with slightly different
> configurations (even one that is tandem badged), so I could see if the
> bus speed is the same or different across all of them.  I realize it
> might not be all that valuable other than to satisfy some curiosity,
> but an interesting data-point nonetheless.
>
> As far as troubleshooting goes, I'll try and switch to the primary
> interface to see if it makes a difference (maybe we can rule something
> out?).  I was only using the secondary so I wouldn't need to employ an
> external transceiver.
>
> -Jesse
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> It crashed again last night so I rebuilt the kernel with your patch.
>>> Both hpc0 and hpc1 now report 25 mhz.  I've attached the full dmesg
>>> below for reference.
>>
>> I was wondering if your system had a 33MHz GIO bus and was incorrectly
>> using the 25MHz settings. But since the diff now reports 25MHz, the
>> settings do not change and the diff doesn't change anything.
>>
>> I am a bit surprised, because here my R5000 Indy has a 33MHz GIO bus
>> while all the R4000/R4400 Indys have 25MHz GIO buses, so I would naively
>> expect your R5000 Challenge S system to also use a 33MHz flavour; but
>> there might be good reasons for things to be this way (also, maybe SGI
>> used 25MHz buses for the R5000 model initially, and only switched to
>> 33MHz months or years later).
>>
>> Back to square one...

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