Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:14:59 -0700 From: robert t tan <rotan@cs.pdx.edu> To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: rotan@cs.pdx.edu Subject: AHA-2940UW Message-ID: <199807171715.KAA08787@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
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Hi, I have a Micron Millenium system that *ran fine* with RELEASE 2.2.2, and win95. At that time I had a Buslogic SCSI controller that ran my hard drive (8 bit) and cdrom drive (8 bit). I replaced my old ( crashed ) hard drive with a new 2G, Western Digital ( SCSI Wide ), and the Buslogic card, with an Adaptec (AHA-2940UW), BIOS v1.32 (http://www.adaptec.com/products/overview/aha2940uw.html) The result is that I can't boot FreeBSD. I terminated all right, Win95 has no problems getting up, and has a partition of 250M. I Disabled the following options in the BIOS. . > 1 GB . Plug And Play Operating System ( both in mainboard and adapter ) I have tried the following: 1: Taking out the adapter and booting untill 'No Operating System' then putting the adapter back in ( same, or other slot), and try again. 2: Taking out all other cards, exept AHA-2940, and Video card. 3: Put a video card, in a ISA slot, xor PCI slot 4: Disconnecting CDROM drive, so only hard drive is connected to controller. 5: Disabling sync, and disconnect in SCSISelect, for cdrom and drive. I am getting the following system messages when my system is trying to boot, RELEASE2.2.6/updates/boot.flp. ( about 7/8/98 ). DPT: RAID Manager driver, version 1.0.1 Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 <intel 82437FX PCI cache memory controller> rev 2 on pci0:0:0 chip1 <intel 82371FB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 2 on pci0:0:0 ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 1 in 1 irq 11 on pci0:17:0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 116 SCBs ahc0: waiting for SCSI devices to settle ahc0: board is not responding cmd fail (ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x1 timed out with recovery in progress (ahc0:0:0): "unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed SCSI 0 uk1 (ahc0:0:1): Unknown ahc0: board is not repsonding .. I noticed people are having problems with this card, in maybe similar ways. But I haven't found a specific response yet that seems to solve it. Also don't know what else to try Did get a note somewhere in the FreeBSD, newsgroup search. that maybe downgrading the controller BIOS from v1.32 to v1.25. I don't know how to do this or if this is actully a good idea. So what is the fix to this ? Tnx, robert t tan. ( rotan@cs.pdx.edu ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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