From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 7:32:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BFA14D94 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 07:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.1] (203.108.22.186) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:59:42 +0930 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:31:46 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, martint@nexus.edu.au From: jesse reynolds Subject: FreeBSD and Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI card problems with Pheonix BIOS p75 board Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I'm having great trouble booting the FreeBSD 3.2 Installer boot floppy, kern.flp, as when it tries to load the driver for the Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI Host Adaptor it ends up in a very slow loop that never ends: (probe0:ahc0:0:0:0): scb 0xe - timed out while idle, Lastphase == 0x1, SEQADDR == 0x18a (probe1:ahc0:0:1:0): queueing a BDR scb (probe2:ahc0:0:2:0): queueing a BDR scb (probe3:ahc0:0:3:0): queueing a BDR scb (probe4:ahc0:0:4:0): queueing a BDR scb (This is transcribed from the screen) I have read other people having problems in the past with this combination of hardware, in particular with a motherboard with Pheonix BIOS. In my case it's a Digital Venturis 575 (a 75MHz pentium board). I have pretty much exactly the same problem with the Redhat Linux 5.1 that is currently installed on the system. When I try and load the adaptec scsi kernel module it puts some very similar errors in the message log and only goes away by rebooting. Needless to say I have never mounted the new Seagate 4Gb drive that's sitting on the other side of the Adaptec 2940. Are there any new releases of the driver for this hardware? Do they fix this problem? Is it simply that the following three things are incompatable together: ? FreeBSD Adaptec 2940 Pheonix BIOS Might it be something else? What can I do about the problem? (It seems from other people's experience that I have to either get a different SCSI card or a different motherboard or a different OS. I have to say a different OS is probably easier at this point, eg SUSE Linux 6.x... lets hope this isn't necessary though. cheers jesse -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au - http://virtual.artists Mobile: (+61) 0416 158 494 Email: jesse (at) va.com.au ?: http://jesse.va.com.au ICQ: 4766684 Timezone: GMT +10:00 Hrs Virtual Community Engine - http://www.vce.net huh?: Content Management System & Application Server for MacOS Webservers (W*API compatable) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message