On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:38:05AM +0000, John Klos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this a problem with the motherboard I'm using or with > NetBSD, but here goes anyway. I have an MSI MS-7511 amd64 motherboard > which has a form of hardware RAID on the motherboard. However, after > using it for a few minutes, the machine locks up HARD. I can't get into > the debugger, I can't get any sort of activity, and even the reset button > doesn't work! > > It makes me think that perhaps the system disables the reset so that > writes which need to go out don't get interrupted the very instant that > the reset button is pushed, but if that's the case this would be the > first time I've seen anything like this on an x86 system. > > If I set the SATA controller to AHCI mode in the BIOS, the system can run > for days. If set to RAID (I'm simply mirroring two 1 TB drives), it might > finish a newfs and untargzip a set, but never all of them.
How old is your kernel ? I've had strange issues with ahci and interrupts on some machines, and a fix (or rather a workaround) for this has just been pulled up to netbsd-5. It could be your problem as well ... -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
