Chris Ross wrote:
> Mihai CHELARU wrote:
>> I have a Compaq SMART-2SL (configured in RAID 0) and works excellent 
>> in 2.0. Don't have a SA-3200, sorry, but I saw that there is no reply 
>> so maybe this can help you point the exact problem. Oh, btw, I saw 
>> it's a multi-proc. machine. Have you set OS to Solaris in Compaq BIOS 
>> utility ?

   Okay, I've now verified this.  It is set to Solaris.

   I think the next thing for me to try, is to remove the RAID'd disks,
and try installing onto disks on the motherboard's SYM876 part.  I
could do an install from the same ftp'd 20040517 snapshot, but that
takes a while.
   Is there a recommended ISO of 2.0 beta?  A recent ISO that's known
to at least boot and install on i386 systems?

                           - Chris


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>> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 22:37, Chris Ross wrote:
>>
>>>   Hello there.  I have a Compaq 1850R, with a Smart Array 3200
>>> controller in it (controlling 4 disks, two RAID1 arrays).  I
>>> have tried installing NetBSD 1.6.2, and multiple 2.0 snapshots,
>>> and when I try to install all of the source, they will all
>>> fail with an NMI (so noted by 1.6.2) or unannounced failure
>>> (cause not noted by pre-2.0 kernels).  In all cases, it will
>>> drop into the kernel debugger "db> prompt", but a trace
>>> is not useful because the symbol names are not present, assumedly
>>> because I loaded off of a floppy.
>>>
>>>   (FYI: I've run BSD/OS 5.1 and FreeBSD-current on this same
>>> hardware without seeing this sort of problem at all, so I'm
>>> assuming for now it's not a hardware problem...)
>>>
>>>   I tried to load the 2.0E snapshot (20040517) from ftp.netbsd.org,
>>> and only if I trim out unneccesary packages at install would it
>>> complete.  However, now, when the system is running, it will
>>> periodically receive an NMI and drop into the kernel debugger.
>>> It appears to be in the mpidle() function (or something like that,
>>> been a week since I looked at it), but I assume that isn't
>>> where the problem actually is, since I don't think I was running
>>> an MP kernel from the boot-floppies.
>>>
>>>   I've been doing a lot of disk I/O, of course, so I'm wondering
>>> if maybe it's a problem with the cac (or pcicac) driver.  Is
>>> there anyone else who has a system with a Smart 3200 controller
>>> in it running netbsd pre-2.0?
>>>
>>>   Any advice on how I could help you guys track down and fix
>>> this problem would be much appreciated.  Thank you.
>>>
>>>                              - Chris
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