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Date:      Fri, 29 May 1998 06:42:24 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "m. w." <m_wall@hotmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD SCSI Mailing List <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: plextor SCSI cdrom
Message-ID:  <19980529064224.K25469@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980528210858.1091.qmail@hotmail.com>; from m. w. on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:08:57PM -0700
References:  <19980528210858.1091.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, 28 May 1998 at 14:08:57 -0700, m. w. wrote:
>
>
>>> Hi, people--
>>>     I seem to have a slight problem with FreeBSD version 2.2.6 seeing
>>> my cdrom and tape drive. I have an Adaptec AHA-2940UW controller with a
>>> Plextor 12x cdrom and Conner tape drive running off of it. NT sees
>>> everything just fine, but when I boot from the cd to install BSD, it
>>> probes the controller and finds nothing on any of the id's. It gets an
>>> unknown response and says that the board is not responding. On the fifth
>>> id it should find the cdrom, but it passes over it just like everything
>>> else. The cables and termination are just fine. I can get as far as
>>> selecting which media I want to install from, and when I select cdrom,
>>> it simply says it can't find one. If anyone has any ideas, they'd be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> Let's see the dmesg output.
>>
>> Greg
>
> Well, here's the stuff it gives me:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> (it finds my chipset here)
> ahc0<Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 10 on PCI
> 0:11:0
> ahc0: aic 7880 Wide Channel, SCSI id = 7, 16SCBs
> ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> (ahc 0:0:0): "Seagate ST19171W 0023" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> sdo (aho 0:0:0): Direct-Access 8683MB (lists clusters and stuff)
> ahc0: board is not responding
> (ahc 0:3:0): SCB 0x0 timedout in datain phase, SCSISIGI = 0x44
> SEQADDR = 0x128 SCSIEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x0 SSTAT1 = 0x3
> (ahc 0:3:0): abort message in message buffer
> ahc0: board is not responding
> cmd fail
> (ahc 0:3:0): SCB 0x1 timedout while recovery in progress
> (ahc 0:3:0) "unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed scsi 0
> uk0(ahc 0:3:0): Unknown
> ahc0: board is not responding
> (ahc 0:3:1): SCB 0x2 timedout while recovery in progress
> (ahc 0:3:1): "unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed scsi 0
> uk1(ahc0:3:1): Unknown
> ahc0: board is not responding
> cmd fail
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> It repeats this for every ID it probes, and then goes on with the rest
> of the pci and isa detection, which has no problems. I'm pretty sure the
> userconfig screen lists the drq and everything right, but I'll check
> again.

I haven't seen anything like this before.  I'm copying the -scsi
list.  Maybe somebody there has an idea.

Greg
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