RE: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-14 Thread Steve Coles
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 February 2006 00:51 To: Steve Coles Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:28:59 -, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Q: Is this a known bug ? Q: If it is, is it fixed in -STABLE ? Not sure

Re: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-13 Thread Danial Thom
--- Steve Coles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange deterministic boot problem with ATA devices on 2-way dell precision machines which boot from their SCSI disks. I have 4 of these boxes, and the only difference is the add-in ATA controller in the affected box. A good summary

Re: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Coles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a strange deterministic boot problem with ATA devices on 2-way dell precision machines which boot from their SCSI disks. I have 4 of these boxes, and the only difference is the add-in ATA controller in the affected box. A good summary would be

Re: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:28:59 -, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Q: Is this a known bug ? Q: If it is, is it fixed in -STABLE ? Not sure on either of the above specifically, but quite a bit of work has gone into IRQ routing and the ata subsystem since 6.0R. Your problem sounds

RE: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Steve, You need to search the bug database to see if this is reported, and if not then use send-pr to file the bug. This is documented in the handbook for FreeBSD. And you should know also that a dmesg output is probably the minimum needed for anyone that knows anything to even bother looking