Update: I've upgraded the BIOS and PERC 5/i (integrated) on my Dell PE 1950.
Old BIOS: 1.5.1 New BIOS: 2.1.1 PERC 5/i OLD: 5.1.1-0040 PERC 5/i NEW: 5.2.1-0067 I've extracted a 126M file, before it completely hangs sd0, but as of the moment I was able to complete the extraction. I'll do some more testing and see if this rectify the problem or if it still exists. -beavis --dmesg-- OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,TM2,CX16,xTPR real mem = 2142142464 (2042MB) avail mem = 2063728640 (1968MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 01/28/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0x7fb9c000 (64 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "2.1.1" date 01/28/2008 bios0: Dell Inc. PowerEdge 1950 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfa880/368 (21 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 6321ESB LPC" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #17 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x9000! 0xc9000/0x1000 0xca000/0x1e00 0xcc000/0x5400 0xec000/0x4000! acpi at mainbus0 not configured ipmi0 at mainbus0: version 2.0 interface KCS iobase 0xca8/8 spacing 4 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 5000X Host" rev 0x12 ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci1 at ppb0 bus 6 ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci2 at ppb1 bus 7 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci3 at ppb2 bus 8 ppb3 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3 pci4 at ppb3 bus 9 bnx0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: irq 11 ppb4 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci5 at ppb4 bus 10 ppb5 at pci1 dev 0 function 3 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x01 pci6 at ppb5 bus 11 ppb6 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci7 at ppb6 bus 1 ppb7 at pci7 dev 0 function 0 "Intel IOP333 PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x00 pci8 at ppb7 bus 2 mfi0 at pci8 dev 14 function 0 "Dell PERC 5" rev 0x00: irq 5 mfi0: logical drives 1, version 5.2.1-0067, 256MB RAM scsibus0 at mfi0: 1 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 5/i, 1.03> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 69376MB, 8844 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 142082048 sec total ppb8 at pci7 dev 0 function 2 "Intel IOP333 PCIE-PCIX" rev 0x00 pci9 at ppb8 bus 3 ppb9 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci10 at ppb9 bus 12 ppb10 at pci10 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x09 pci11 at ppb10 bus 13 ppb11 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci12 at ppb11 bus 14 ppb12 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci13 at ppb12 bus 15 ppb13 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 5000 PCIE" rev 0x12 pci14 at ppb13 bus 16 pchb1 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb2 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb3 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "Intel 5000 Error Reporting" rev 0x12 pchb4 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12 pchb5 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Intel 5000 Reserved" rev 0x12 pchb6 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12 pchb7 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "Intel 5000 FBD" rev 0x12 ppb14 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB PCIE" rev 0x09 pci15 at ppb14 bus 4 ppb15 at pci15 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xc3 pci16 at ppb15 bus 5 bnx1 at pci16 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5708" rev 0x12: irq 11 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 11 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 10 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 11 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 6321ESB USB" rev 0x09: irq 11 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 ppb16 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xd9 pci17 at ppb16 bus 17 vga1 at pci17 dev 13 function 0 "ATI ES1000" rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 6321ESB LPC" rev 0x09: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 6321ESB IDE" rev 0x09: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, DVD-ROM DV28EV, D.AE> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 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 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; 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 ffe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhub4 at uhub0 port 5: Cypress Semiconductor USB2 Hub, rev 2.00/0.0b, addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 uhidev0: CHESEN USB Keyboard, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes, country code 33 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 uhidev1: CHESEN USB Keyboard, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2, iclass 3/0 uhidev1: 3 report ids uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 2: input=1, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=3, output=0, feature=0 dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b bnx1: address 00:19:b9:ec:48:3a brgphy0 at bnx1 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6 bnx0: address 00:19:b9:ec:48:3c brgphy1 at bnx0 phy 1: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 6 On Feb 11, 2008 1:10 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Marco Peereboom schrieb: > > I think it is some sort of race and we end up hanging the firmware. > > Like I said I have never seen it myself but that is how it feels like. > > Also tracing the code and that particular error there is not much else > > that could be wrong. Let me think about this for a few days. > > Thanks a lot, I was able to force that error by just deleting (rm -rP) > ~50 GB of files (~300 MB / each) which I created before ... the system > hung before all files could be deleted. > > > Michael