On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:18, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > We have recently bought some new Supermicro P8SCT boards with 3ware > 8006LP2's and are using the amd64 port, however if I put the 3ware in the > PCI-X slot it hangs probing the disks (eg at the end of the boot if it's in > the kernel, or at load time if I use kldload). If I put it in a 32 bit slot > it works fine. > > I tried reducing the PCI-X clock down to 100MHz but it made no difference. > > If I boot an i386 kernel it works fine (I tried 6.2RC2). > > Unfortunately the hang is solid and I can't break into the debugger :(
I just put an Adaptec 29160 card in it (which is a 64 bit PCI card) and it also hangs if I put it in the PCI-X slot, it works fine in a PCI32 slot. (I haven't tried booting i386 to see if it works there though) I have also tried the latest BIOS with the fail-safe defaults set - no change. I have grabbed a slab of info from DDB over Firewire (plus NMI switch :) which is attached. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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