From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 29 07:47:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07653 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07634 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA14378 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:46:35 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35BF35CB.988CAF6@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:46:35 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help needed with an unruly AST & Adaptec 2940 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All, I've just started to set-up a 3rd FreeBSD machine - which is identical to 2 other boxes we have running as production servers... The machine is an AST Premmia G90 (P90, 64 Mb RAM, Onboard NE2100 compatible network card, Onboard NCR SCSI). We don't use the onboard SCSI (though the problem below persists with or without it enabled)... Instead we fit an Adaptec 2940UW, with a KGB Altas-II hard drive... This works fine for the other 2 machines, but this one can't even find the SCSI drive... The 2940 has an AIC7880p chip on it, and BIOS v1.32 - I've tried all the usual stuff in the BIOS (i.e. termination etc.) - NT finds the drive fine (It would, wouldn't' it?) - but booting FreeBSD 2.2.7 or 2.2.5 boot disks gives me: " eisa0 Probing for devices on the EISA bus DPT: EISA SCSI HBA Driver, version 1.4.3 Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 Rev 17 on pci0:0:0 ncr0 Rev 1 int a irq 15 on pci0:1:0 ncr0 waiting for SCSI devices to settle chip1 rev 4 on pci0:2:0 ahc0 Rev 1 int a on irq 11 on pci0:3:0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16 SCB's ahc0 waiting for SCSI devices to settle ahc0: board is not responding (ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI == 0x0 SEQADDR = 0x167 SCSIREQ = 0x12 SSTAT0=0x4 SSTAT1 = 0x8 (ahc0:0:0): Queing an abort ahc0: board is not responding " If I run with 'boot: -v' - I get basically the same, except it mentions 'uploading 387' (or similar) commands to the SCSI adapter... Unfortunately I can't down the other 2 boxes to swap bits (this box is meant to be a hot spare - how ironic? ) Looking at the DMESG's for the other boxes - they all appear identical up to the point where the board doesn't respond... The other boxes have much older 2940's in them (e.g. BIOS 1.24 etc) Can anyone suggest anything? Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message