Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-25 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Doug: Heh... well I've already enabled flags 0xb0ff, which has improved things Speaking of flags for ATA disks, I'm using 0xa0ff for my laptop drive and wonders if there a better setting...? found- vendor=0x8086, dev=0x7111, revid=0x01 class=01-01-80, hdrtype=0x00,

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-16 Thread Doug
Mike Smith wrote: Well that's not good, since I have almost convinced my boss to replace the crappy IDE drives on our shiny new Intel N440BX mb's with scsi drives since the controller is built in. :-/ Does this look like a soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-15 Thread Stevan Arychuk
I would be more than willing to do run some hardware tests in our lab enviroment here, but our main problem is that we can't acurately reproduce the problem. The reboots seem to happen maybe 3-4 times a week from a pool of about 7 machines. I'm not sure if someone could write a piece of code

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-12 Thread David Greenman
David Greenman wrote: So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises the

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Doug
David Greenman wrote: So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises the

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Mike Smith
Well that's not good, since I have almost convinced my boss to replace the crappy IDE drives on our shiny new Intel N440BX mb's with scsi drives since the controller is built in. :-/ Does this look like a soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of "don't do that?" Anything I

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread David Greenman
So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises the failures and help David

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Stevan Arychuk
So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Stevan Arychuk AvantGo Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith wrote: 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

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Mike Smith
So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises the failures and help David out with

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread David Greenman
So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises the failures and help David out with

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Mike Smith
So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises the failures and help David

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-08 Thread Scott Hess
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-08 Thread Stevan Arychuk
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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Greenman wrote: We're running 3.3-REL on dual processor PII-450's, with a

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-08 Thread Mike Smith
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? We've seen these symptoms on non-Intel boards. (eg. ASUS P2L, P2B). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-07 Thread David Greenman
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"

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
Greetings, 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

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-07 Thread Todd Backman
We run about 50 machines with a similar setup (asus p2bd mb) all of which run quite well. We have NMBCLUSERS=30720 though... - Todd On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Stevan Arychuk wrote: Greetings, We're running 3.3-REL on dual processor PII-450's, with a N440BX motherboard, using the onboard