Re: Crashes with large SuperMicro based server. [SOLVED]

[Bert Kiers <kiers%original.xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:09PM +0100, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
> liman%cafax.se@localhost:
> > Hi!
> 
> > I'm trying to run a NetBSD based Xen server on a 3-year-old server with
> > a SuperMicro X8DTU/X8DTU-F motherboard with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
> > E5620 @ 2.40GHz (in total 16 cores), and 24 GB of RAM. It also sports an
> > Areca RAID board, which isn't recognized, but that's a different
> > story. It boots both 6.1.5 and 7.0_BETA (GENERIC) nicely (for some value
> > thereof ...), as long as there's no Xen involved, and I use the on-board
> > (non-RAID) disk controller.
> 
> It turned out to be the Areca controller. When I yanked it out, the
> machine booted normally - with Xen.

I run a Supermicro X8DTU with an Areca ARC-1680, Xen 4.5.0,
NetBSD6.1_STABLE and it works very well.
(worked also with older NetBSD en older Xen)


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