Re: Strange hardware problems

["Peter" <peter@easynix.com>]

You didn't mention which NIC you have but it looks like one with
a Realtek chip on it. Try another card.
Peter


> Hi all,
>
> I have a machine running OpenBSD3 with two NICs and 3 big IDE drives
on
> two different controllers. The system runs NAT, samba and my ftpserver
> just fine with one exception: When I try to copy a big file, say 700
> megs, to the wd2 disk from another machine via ftp or a smb-share the
> NIC to my "inner" net just goes silent after a couple of hundred megs.
> The smb-share or ftp connection is of course broken (as are all
> connections to my netword behind the OBSD machine) and the file is not
> correctly transferd. The machines can no longer ping each other but
> ifconfig says that the interface is active. But the wierd part is that
> nothing shows up in the logs. No erromessages at all, and if I go to
the
> console and run tcpdump on that NIC then everything start to work
again
> after a couple of seconds.
>
> I have no idea whats happening, though I suspect both the rl0 NIC and
> the pciide1 controller serving the wd2 disk.
>
> Anyone have an idea? I really need this system to work.
>
> Ahh, and if it helps: If i put another disk on the pciide0:1:x or on
> pciide1:1:x the system repreatedly tries to downgrade it from DMA to
PIO
> mode and data gets corrupted on write. So I don't.
>
> Thanks,
> /Fred
> woofer@home.se
>
> My dmesg.boot:
> OpenBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #94: Thu Oct 18 14:48:27 MDT 2001
>     deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 199
> MHz
> cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV
> real mem  = 66699264 (65136K)
> avail mem = 56532992 (55208K)
> using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory mainbus0
> (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(d5) BIOS, date 08/12/98, BIOS32 rev.
0
> @ 0xf0430 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (BIOS mgmt
disabled)
> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xa62
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xf09e0/128 (6 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:01:0 ("Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA"
rev
> 0x00)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x2600
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82441FX" rev 0x02
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA" rev 0x01
pciide0
> at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371SB IDE" rev 0x00: DMA, channel 0
> wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at
pciide0
> channel 0 drive 0: <ST39140A>
> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8693MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 17803440
> sectors
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> dc0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Lite-On PNIC" rev 0x21: irq 12 address
> 00:a0:cc:3e:bc:f3 lxtphy0 at dc0 phy 1: LXT970 10/100 media interface,
> rev. 0 vga1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Matrox MGA Millenium 2064W
> (Storm)" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> pciide1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "CMD Technology PCI0649" rev 0x02:
> DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to
> native-PCI
> pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
> wd1 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 96147H8>
> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 58623MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec,
120060864
> sectors wd2 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 1: <MAXTOR 6L080J4>
> wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 76345MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec,
156355584
> sectors
> wd1(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
> wd2(pciide1:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
> rl0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Accton Technology MPX 5030/5038" rev
> 0x10: irq 9 address 00:10:b5:06:fe:16 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL
internal
> phy isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at
> pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> sb0 at isa0 port 0x220/24 irq 5 drq 1: dsp v4.11
> midi0 at sb0: <SB MIDI UART>
> audio0 at sb0
> opl0 at sb0: model OPL3
> midi1 at opl0: <SB Yamaha OPL3>
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi2 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> sysbeep0 at pcppi0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at
isa0
> port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo biomask 4800 netmask 5a00
> ttymask 5a82
> pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
> mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
> dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
> dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 81
> dkcsum: wd2 matched BIOS disk 82
> root on wd0a
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302