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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:44:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
To:        "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with second Adaptec (39160) card: System hangs during boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012141643240.65317-100000@mail.wlcg.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001214212831.EB65DDE81@mail.cise.ufl.edu>

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You might want to try forcing the pci slots that those cards are in to
specific IRQs in the BIOS.

Robert Simmons
Systems Administrator
http://www.wlcg.com/

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, James F. Hranicky wrote:

> 
> I've recently tried installing an Adaptec 39160 card into one of my 
> FreeBSD servers, however, about halfway through the boot process, the 
> system hangs. Here's (hopefully) the relevant parts of the boot 
> sequence:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> 
> FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 14 12:08:38 EST 2000                             
>     root@palm.cise.ufl.edu:/private/freebsd-src/obj/private/freebsd-src/src/sys/CISEKERN
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (646.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
>   Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> real memory  = 268369920 (262080K bytes)
> 
> [...]
> 
> pcib2: <Intel 82443GX (440 GX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib2
> pcib3: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1011 device=0023)> at device 15.0 on pci1
> pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib3
> ahc0: <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 5 at device 11.0 on pci0
> aic7899: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> ahc1: <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xf4101000-0xf4101fff irq 11 at device 11.1 on pci0
> aic7899: Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> ahc2: <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0x2800-0x28ff mem 0xf4102000-0xf4102fff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
> aic7896/97: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> ahc3: <Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0x2c00-0x2cff mem 0xf4103000-0xf4103fff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0
> aic7896/97: Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0x3000-0x303f mem 0xf4000000-0xf40fffff,0xf4104000-0xf4104fff irq 10 at device 
> 
> [...]
> 
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> 
> [HANG]
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> If I remove the card, the system continues on past this point:
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> [...]
> 
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
> ata0-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
> ata0-slave: identify failed
> acd0: CDROM <CD-540E> at ata0-master using PIO4
> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <QUANTUM ATLAS 10K 9WLS UCP2> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
> da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 8759MB (17938986 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1116C)
> 
> [...]
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> I have the following options set:
> 
> 	options         DDB
> 	options         BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER       #a BREAK on a comconsole goes to
> 
> however, the system doesn't respond to a break on the serial console at this
> point. If the keyboard is plugged in, however, it will reboot after a <Ctrl>
> <Alt><Del> .
> 
> It seems that both cards are using irq 11 for one or both channels. I don't
> know if this is the problem, and if it is, if there's anything I can do
> about it.
> 
> If anyone needs more info, I can supply it.
> 
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