Not sure exactly where this goes...
so, i'm sending it to everyone :P
I've heard tell that there are problems with the VIA chipset and UDMA on
FreeBSD. Is this true, and if so, what is the problem with?
In my system is:
FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Dec 8 01:52:44 EST 2000
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (601.37-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3
atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1 on
pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ad0: 19546MB <FUJITSU MPF3204AT> [39714/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
The drive has enough space and I have 512MB RAM. If I hit the system hard,
lets say, rm -rf /usr/ports, the system locks up. It doesn't just stop
responding for a little bit. It locks up tight. It kills all network
connections, doesn't respond to the console and doesn't respond to any
network activity. A hard reboot is the only thing that can bring it back to
life.
One time, someone was able to see the console when this happened, and they
said something about a page fault. Trying to solve this, we ordered two brand
new 256MB modules and installed them. It is still happening.
This is a production environment type of server. I've had no other problems
with FreeBSD 4.2-S, and i'm hoping maybe this is something that has been
fixed.
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