Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:58:31 -0500 From: "Mit Rowe" <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: "questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SCSI problem Message-ID: <DBEMKGPNFGOGJHLMDNDJEEMPDLAA.mitayai@dreaming.org>
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Hello!
I've got a bit of a weird problem i'm hoping someone has some hints for...
I'm installing FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE (also tried todays's snapshot of -STABLE)
via floppy onto a dual-processor ASUS motherboard with an Adaptec 7890
on-board SCSI card and an IBM SCSI drive.
I can install fine, but when i reboot, the boot manager pops up with the
usual F1 prompt, but when i press F1, the machine beeps and nothing happens.
Further pressing cause no more beeps.
The weird thing is that with a FreeBSD 3.2 system on that machine,
everything worked fine.
So, i threw in an IDE drive that i have a GENERIC 4.3 on so i could at least
boot the drive and get some diagnostics...
Here's the card and drive in dmesg:
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem
0xe1000000-0xe1000fff irq 12 at device 6.0 on pci0
aic7890/91: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <IBM DDRS-39130D DC1B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
Enabled
da0: 8715MB (17850000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1111C)
Now... i'm not sure is this is to be expected or not, but fdisk and
disklabel show different geometry, and disklabel says there are *8*
partitions when there is 4...:
ariel# fdisk /dev/da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=29310 heads=29 sectors/track=21 (609 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=29310 heads=29 sectors/track=21 (609 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 21, size 17849769 (8715 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 21/ head 28
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Disklabel comes up:
ariel# disklabel /dev/da0s1
# /dev/da0s1:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 21
tracks/cylinder: 29
sectors/cylinder: 609
cylinders: 29309
sectors/unit: 17849769
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 1024000 1048576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1721*-
3403*)
b: 1048576 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 -
1721*)
c: 17849769 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
29309*)
e: 8388608 2072576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3403*-
17177*)
f: 7388585 10461184 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 17177*-
29309*)
ariel# disklabel /dev/da0s1
# /dev/da0s1:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 21
tracks/cylinder: 29
sectors/cylinder: 609
cylinders: 29309
sectors/unit: 17849769
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 1024000 1048576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1721*-
3403*)
b: 1048576 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 -
1721*)
c: 17849769 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
29309*)
e: 8388608 2072576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3403*-
17177*)
f: 7388585 10461184 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 17177*-
29309*)
I'm going to try reinstalling and specify the geometry, but i thought i'd
ask in case someone has any hints.
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