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Date:      Sun, 17 Jan 1999 09:06:46 +0100
From:      Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>
To:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, merlin@ghostwheel.com (Christopher Knight)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem booting from aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990117085758.009d2ee0@194.184.65.4>
In-Reply-To: <199901170256.MAA01382@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
References:  <4.1.19990116180852.00a9aea0@pop.ghostwheel.com>

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At 12.56 17/01/99 +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
>+----[ Christopher Knight ]---------------------------------------------
>| At 12:49 AM 1/17/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
>| >
>| >Ok, first the conclusion... 
>| >
>| >I am not able to boot anymore from a 3.0-current system while I can boot
>| >quite nicely from the 3.0-RELEASE generic kernel. 
>| >
>| >The system hangs on checking the scsi chain and remains stopped here. The
>| >last thing I can see on the screen is the :
>| >Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>| >
>| >And nothing else happens anymore. So I have to hard reset the box.
>| 
>| 
>| I have been seeing this for the two weeks or so.  A shutdown -r will always
>| hang.  A complete powerdown has been the only way I can reboot my box of 
>late.
>
>I recently (last night) added USB support to my kernel (just to see :-) 
>and it hung at the same place. Removing the USB entries fixed it.
>
>This was also at the same time as the syscons/atkbd changeover for me as well
>so I wasn't expecting it really to be the USB driver (since I have no
>USB devices).
>
>If you have USB support compiled in try removing it.
>

I have no USB support compiled, as you can see in my kernel configuration I
sent with my last message. 
Perhaps it's a timing problem or an intrusive check. boh ?

Who knows what is changed in the (scsi|cam|adaptec) in the last mounth or so ?








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