Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x
well I might have some insight into this mystery I am currently running with a less then fully populated drive cage... I have 2 of the 3 1 inch 9.1gb drives in place. I have had them placed in the slot 0 and slot 1 position. And win2k server loaded fine but fbsd did not see the drives. On a hunch - I just moved the drives up so that the empty spot is slot 0 and the 2 drives are in slots 1 and 2... 4.7R saw the drives. 4.9R does not. Now I am new to this chassis - I don't know if I am supposed to have a blank in this empty slot - but it will not matter ot me in the long run, as I have another 9.1gb drive on its way to fill the empty spot.. I just hope I do not have a buggy backplane. Guy Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts but no luck. I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. FWIW, I had identical problems with two 1850's, one PII400 single CPU and one PII450 dual. Both are now running fine with 4.9-REL, the first with a SmartArray 221 and the second with a Smart Array 3200. There has been a few problems apparently with the sym driver for the built in SCSI and I'm not using it in either. For instance, I had this problem in 4.8-REL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/52331 where I had 8 drives but only 4 visible. I tend to agree with another poster that there are changes between the PII and PIII 1850 motherboards that makes the formar fail with 5.1 and the latter is ok. just my $0.02 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x
Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts but no luck. I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. FWIW, I had identical problems with two 1850's, one PII400 single CPU and one PII450 dual. Both are now running fine with 4.9-REL, the first with a SmartArray 221 and the second with a Smart Array 3200. There has been a few problems apparently with the sym driver for the built in SCSI and I'm not using it in either. For instance, I had this problem in 4.8-REL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/52331 where I had 8 drives but only 4 visible. I tend to agree with another poster that there are changes between the PII and PIII 1850 motherboards that makes the formar fail with 5.1 and the latter is ok. just my $0.02 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x
Thanks for the reply... I will give 4.8R a shot - I am trying to get 5.1R to work... but I will pass if it is too rough for production machines. I will also try that bios tweak. Guy Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. Hi! Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges, and 5.1R (or do you use a -current snapshot?) is also in some things not that nice... Sometimes you have to set it to NT4-OS Type. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts but no luck. I had in my former company a 1850 running SMP with a 4.8-stable. The onboard SCSI is basically a Symbios one, and it was recognized without hassle. (Ok, it needs the compaq tool partition to do RAID stuff, but... well, broke it during installation) I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. That ist strange indeed, my box (dual PIII-500) went fine. But perhaps there is also a different Mainboard in, with some undocumented change in the series. HTH Olaf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote: > I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz > machine that works fine with Win2k server... but > I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at > sysinstall. Hi! Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges, and 5.1R (or do you use a -current snapshot?) is also in some things not that nice... Sometimes you have to set it to NT4-OS Type. > I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned > including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. > I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts > but no luck. > I had in my former company a 1850 running SMP with a 4.8-stable. The onboard SCSI is basically a Symbios one, and it was recognized without hassle. (Ok, it needs the compaq tool partition to do RAID stuff, but... well, broke it during installation) > I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the > onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. > I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x > issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. > That ist strange indeed, my box (dual PIII-500) went fine. But perhaps there is also a different Mainboard in, with some undocumented change in the series. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x
I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts but no luck. I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
