amd64/91405: Kernel panic caused by asr on 6.0-amd64 box

[Scott Long]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/91405; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org>
To: Don Brearley <donbrearley at hibbing.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/91405: Kernel panic caused by asr on  6.0-amd64 box
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:14:57 -0700

 Don Brearley wrote:
 
 >>Number:         91405
 >>Category:       amd64
 >>Synopsis:       Kernel panic caused by asr on  6.0-amd64 box
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       high
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 >>State:          open
 >>Quarter:        
 >>Keywords:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 06 17:20:02 GMT 2006
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Don Brearley
 >>Release:        6.0-STABLE #4
 >>Organization:
 > 
 > Hibbing Community College
 > 
 >>Environment:
 > 
 > FreeBSD hcc.hibbing.edu 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #4: Thu Jan 5 16:01:00 CST
 > 2006    root at hcc.hibbing.edu:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/HCC amd64
 > 
 >>Description:
 > 
 > I have a Tyan Thunder S2895 (K8WE) motherboard in which I am trying to use
 > an Adaptec 2400A ATA-RAID Card (AAR-2400A).  I have dual Opteron 246 CPU's
 > with 2GB of RAM.  I am using a USB keyboard.
 > 
 > The problem is that I cannot boot the box with the Adaptec Card installed
 > with ACPI-enabled.  
 > 
 > When I have ACPI enabled, the card is detected and then the kernel panic's
 > with:  kernel trap 12: page fault in kernel mode, and then reboots.
 > 
 > When I have ACPI disabled, the box boots up just fine but the Adaptec card
 > is not detected.  
 > 
 > I am enabling/disabling ACPI through hint.acpi.0.disable in /boot/loader.conf
 > and/or choosing option #1 or #2 in the boot menu.
 > 
 > When I boot the box without the card, in ACPI mode, everything works fine. 
 > 
 > The problem persists in either SMP or non-SMP environments.
 > 
 > The problem persists with multiple Adaptec 2400A cards.  I've tried two others
 > and both get errors.   I've tried using different PCI slots, and that also
 > did not correct the problem. 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > 
 > Get a Tyan S2895 board and an Adaptec ATA-RAID 2400 card.  Install 6.0-release
 > and try to boot with ACPI-enabled.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >>Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > None.  You can boot the machine by disabling ACPI, but you will not be able
 > to use the Adaptec card, so you may as well just remove the card and use ACPI.
 > 
 > Please feel free to contact me for further details.
 > 
 >>Release-Note:
 >>Audit-Trail:
 >>Unformatted:
 > 
 
 The ASR driver will absolutely not work on amd64 due to not being 64bit 
 clean.  Fixing the driver requires a significant amount of work.