From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Apr 20 14:23:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE9537B43E; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from presence@churchofinformationwarfare.org) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519146D1A; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:23:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:23:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Reverend K Kanno X-Sender: presence@shell-3.enteract.com To: Mike Smith Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot spinner In-Reply-To: <200104202110.f3KLAdf02644@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > I've got a 4.3-RC box that rebooted for some unknown reason. At this point it > > will boot only as far as the third bar in the boot spinner: > > > > - \ | (hangs here) > > > > Is there a meaning behind each position as in each letter of LILO displayed > > in lilo? > > No, there isn't a special meaning. It sounds like your disk BIOS is > really upset about something. > > > Hardware is a dell 2450 with an Adaptec 2100s RAID card. > > What does the Adaptec RAID BIOS think about the current state of the > array? It thinks it's fine. I setup another mirror set with a fresh install, then remounted the first mirror set. There is much file corruption on the failed set. I'm going to guess this is a hardware issue as the machine was ok for a week then went down with nothing in the logs. KEN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message