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...
