From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 09:26:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA30C16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9EA43FE3 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 032B472DA3; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AC672DA2; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:26:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:26:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Clint Gilders In-Reply-To: <3F9D8199.1030306@onlinehobbyist.com> Message-ID: <20031028092302.Q27950@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <3F9D8199.1030306@onlinehobbyist.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot of Dell 1750 fails with multiple SCSI drives installed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:26:16 -0000 On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Clint Gilders wrote: > We have a brand new Dell Power Edge 1750 with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra 4 > SCSI Adapter and 2 x 73 GB harddrives. > > I did not do the install because I am about 1000 miles form our > co-location facility, but here is the information I have on the problems > seen by the tech doing the install. I did this install on one of these 2 weeks ago and it worked perfectly. Perhaps the backplane board in the system is damaged? > With the two factory installed drives attached the system will not boot > from the install CD. If the second drive is disconnected the system can > be installed, but again will not boot if the second drive is connected. > The system is running 4.9-RC with an SMP kernel. 4.8 gave the same > results. > > This is what's logged with one or two drives: > > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: mpt0: port 0xcc00-0xccff mem > 0xfcd20000-0xfcd2ffff,0xfcd30000-0xfcd3ffff irq 7 at device 5.0 on pci4 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: mpt1: port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem > 0xfcd00000-0xfcd0ffff,0xfcd10000-0xfcd1ffff irq 13 at device 5.1 on pci4 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1 at mpt0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1: 3.300MB/s transfers > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 > device > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), > Tagged Queueing Enabled > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: 70007MB (143374650 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C) > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > When there are two drives the machine hangs at this point and prints the following error > message to the console: > > MPT0: time out on request sequence: sequence = 0xFD Command timeouts are usually indicitive of SCSI connectivity problems. I would get the Dell diagnostics disk and run it on your system. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org