Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:22:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: ellis@kcc.com (Ellis Joshua) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, ted@stargate.org, patrickr@Exabyte.COM Subject: Re: AIC-7890 - can't install 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <199904072022.OAA04844@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <2B2253731B41D211846400805F19594B04B0F250@ustcax08.kcc.com> from "Ellis, Joshua" at "Apr 7, 1999 11: 8:18 am"
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Ellis, Joshua wrote... > >> Running ASUS P2B-S motherboard, with a PII/450. > >> Using the onboard AIC-7890 controller with a > >> Quantum Viking II 4.5WLS Ultra-LVD drive, attempting > >> to install FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE. > > >> Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0x40 > >> SEQADDR == 0x8a > >> (probe0:ahc0:0:0:1):SCB 0x0 - timed out in datain phase, > >> SEQADDR==0x88 > > KDM> There is a known hang problem with the 7890, > KDM> and it sounds like that's the problem you have. > > PR> I may be wrong, but if your using that > PR> drive in LVD mode it may not be supported > PR> at all.... It was my understanding that LVD > PR> is not supported yet in LVD mode.. LVD is supported, and has been for a long time. > TDB> We had this same problem with quantum 4.5g > TDB> differential drives and an adaptec 2944uw. > TDB> It turned out the drive was jumpered wrong > TDB> - wish I could remember exactly which jumper > TDB> it was - but it's been quite a while. HVD is a very different animal than LVD. The 2944UW is a HVD card. > Thanks to those who responded. The first thing I did was flash the P2B BIOS > to rev 1008 (Feb-1999), to see if the problem may have been with the > on-board controller. Same result. Pulled the drive, jumpered it to run in > SE mode, and viola, it worked: 3.1-RELEASE installed and the system is very, > very fast. I'll check -STABLE to see if it improves the situation, and try > it again in LVD mode. If I can't get max throughput on the drive for now, > that's okay, too. Are you *sure* you have it plugged into the LVD port on the motherboard? There are two 68-pin ports on the board. Also, how do you have it terminated? Do you have a "twisty" cable with an LVD terminator block on the end? LVD drives don't have terminators, you have to terminate them externally, even when they're on a single ended bus. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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