From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 08:55:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 E926816A49E for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:55:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gvanlehn@ccsf.edu) Received: from fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us (fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us [147.144.1.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726E243D55 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:55:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gvanlehn@ccsf.edu) Received: from ccsf.edu ([10.100.2.224]) by fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id k9Q8X4S25734; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <454072BB.8050709@ccsf.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:32:59 -0700 From: Glen Van Lehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <45403648.7050407@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <45403648.7050407@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install 5.4 CD, Adaptec 2120S, aac0: Command Timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:55:29 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Glen Van Lehn wrote: > >>>>> Scott Long 10/25/06 7:36 PM >>> >>>> >> Glen Van Lehn wrote: >> >>> Hi, I'm new to the FreeBSD lists, and still uncertain on protocol. >>> I posted this today on the freebsd-hardware list, but from the >>> discussion I'm seeing today, it may better apply to 5-stable than >>> hardware. >>> ----- >>> I'm installing 5-STABLE from the 5.4 CDset onto a new HP DL140 G2 >>> with an Adaptec 2120S RAID controller that someone else had already >>> installed with a Linux OS. Two HDD are config'd as RAID1 set. After >>> the probes for VGA & mouse, the boot stuck on a repeated series of >>> messages: >>> >>> aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef000 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS >>> # 16 diff hex offsets per set .. each set repeating every 20 seconds >>> aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef708 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS >>> >>> A different boot has a different hex prefix, 0xc3a16, but the same >>> sequence of 16 trailing digits, 000 to 708. >>> >>> Searching this list, I found a similar post from Chris Knight in >>> January, but he was on 6 and that was apparently right at a change >>> to the aac driver. Searching FreeBSD.org turned up a similar >>> problem back in March 2004 [5.2.1]. Scott Long responded to that >>> one as a known issue being resolved. >>> The BIOS firmware was 'Build 7244' from May 2004, but I updated that >>> to Build 8205 [latest for that chipset] and still had the same problem. >>> >>> Would the pre-existing different OS install mess up the aac0 >>> driver? like format the array first? >>> I broke the array, re-inited the disks and recreated RAID 1.. but >>> didn't format drives .. still had problem. >>> >>> something else? I was able to install Fedora4 after failing on >>> 5.4, but I'd like to use FreeBSD for this project. >>> >>> comments appreciated, >>> glen van lehn >>> >> >> Does the 'Safe mode' boot option work? This is likely an interrupt >> routing problem. >> >> Scott >> >> ---- >> Yes! it did, thank you. >> >> glen >> > > Ok, you'll probably want to put the following line into > /boot/loader.conf: > > hint.apic.0.disabled=1 > > However, if this is an SMP machine, this option will only allow 1 CPU > to be used. If this option doesn't work, then the next one to try is > > hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 > > > Scott --- I actually already had acpi disabled and added the apci to loader.conf. Still have the problem if I don't manually boot to Safe mode. One difference is that right before the aacd0 errors in the default boot, I also get errors about ata0-master and others that may relate no floppy drive in the system . Following is the tail of dmesg output from Safe boot annotated where the default mode errors occur: vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (memory) unknown: can't assign resources (irq) unknown: can't assign resources (port) fdc1: cannot allocate I/O port (6 ports) Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2800112140 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec acd0: DVDROM at ata0-master PIO4 aacd0: on aac0 aacd0: 34730MB (71127808 sectors) pass0 at aacp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: Fixed unknown SCSI-3 device pass0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit) pass1 at aacp0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 pass1: Fixed unknown SCSI-3 device pass1: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a stray irq7 ## is this stray significant? --glen