Thanks for your response David.
Do you think the problem is isolated to just the onboard devices? Would
a PCI NIC help or is it the entire N440BX board?
Regards,
Stevan Arychuk
AvantGo Inc.
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David Greenman wrote:
>
> >We're running 3.3-REL on dual processor PII-450's, with a N440BX
> >motherboard, using the onboard EtherExpress Pro (fxp) NIC and 512MB RAM.
> >
> >These machines are running custom software that excercises the disk, CPU
> >and network quite heavily. The SMP machines seem to have both "fxp0:
> >device timeout" problems, and spontaneous reboots. We were uable to get
> >a working savecore until now, and have traced the reboots back to the
> >fxp driver as well. Here are the debug outputs, and any custom changes
> >to our kernel config.
> >
> >Could this be a problem with SMP + fxp combination? Any other thoughts
> >or ideas?
> >
> >We've serached, and read, and searched all the FAQ's for both of these
> >problems, and have pretty well come up empty. Suggestions for the next
> >course of action?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for anyones help.
>
> There is some kind of hardware problem with the Intel N440BX motherboard
> that is causing memory corruption during the DMA. This is the third nearly
> identical report I've gotten about it. It does not appear to be a FreeBSD
> bug and so far only occurs when using the N440BX. You might try messing with
> the BIOS options and see if changing any of the DMA related settings will
> make the problem go away...I'd be very interested in the results.
>
> -DG
>
> David Greenman
> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
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