Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

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From
Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Date
22 May 2000 11:33:08
Subject
Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...
Message-ID
200005221833.LAA05342@mass.cdrom.com

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Can you be more specific about "panicing"? As far as details go, you're
not helping yourself.

> I was doing a FreeBSD 4.0 Install on a fairly new Supermicro PIIIDM3
> motherboard. I eventually got FreeBSD 4.0 installed, however, during the
> install, it kept hanging up and panicing. After trying to do a bin only
> install, it took about 7 trys until it didnt hang up and panic. When I did
> get it installed, everything worked, and it booted. But if I go into
> sysinstall and try to do a post install addition of, lets say src/sys,
> same thing happens. It freezes up and hangs part way throw, and eventually
> will throw up a panic error.
>
> Any ideas about the stability of the aix78xx driver for this motherboard
> and it's aic-7892 chip?

I use one of these boards on a daily basis; it's been very stable under
both -stable and -current, although I don't use the SCSI interface very
often anymore.

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com




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