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

[Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>]

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)

Ack. Mine is an ARC-1200_B. That B-revision was obviously missing in the
PCI table.

				Cheers,
				  /Liman