amd64/78406: AMD64 w/ SCSI, install FreeBSD 5.3 fine. issue 'rm -r/usr/ports' and system crashes

[Lawrence Farr]

Try limiting the drive to U160 in the bios utility and see if
it helps. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ray Johns
> Sent: 04 March 2005 11:57
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: amd64/78406: AMD64 w/ SCSI, install FreeBSD 5.3 
> fine. issue 'rm -r/usr/ports' and system crashes
> 
> 
> >Number:         78406
> >Category:       amd64
> >Synopsis:       AMD64 w/ SCSI, install FreeBSD 5.3 fine.  
> issue 'rm -r /usr/ports' and system crashes
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       critical
> >Priority:       high
> >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 04 12:00:39 GMT 2005
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Ray Johns
> >Release:        5.3 AMD64
> >Organization:
> n/a
> >Environment:
> AMD server with Tyan MB and dual CPU's.  I believe the system 
> board is their Thunder MB.  eren at opensourcestorage.com can 
> give full system specs (reference AMD system from Ray Johns)
> >Description:
> This has happened twice.  First time, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 
> AMD64 on the server (it's an eval server from 
> eren at opensourcestorage.com).  Everything goes fine.  I log 
> into the machine, make some changes to my shell/prompt, no 
> problems.  I ftp an updated ports.tar.gz from ftp.freebsd.org 
> to the machine, no problem.  As root, I cd /usr then issue rm 
> -r ports/ so that I can remove the ports tree and untar the 
> new ports and the system crashes/locks.  on the console, 
> there are error messages.  I took a photo of them here:
> 
> http://www.redshift.com/~ray/amd/
> 
> I contacted opensourcestorage and they sent a replacement 
> SCSI drive (it's a maxtore 18GB).  I installed the new drive, 
> reloaded FreeBSD again and the system crashed again at the 
> exact same spot when I issued rm -r ports
> >How-To-Repeat:
> install FreeBSD AMD64, delete ports directory
> >Fix:
> none at this time.
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
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