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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:44:04 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion
Message-ID:  <448FBE44.3010703@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <448F9A87.3070809@u.washington.edu>
References:  <448F9A87.3070809@u.washington.edu>

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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello again all,
>     I know this isn't a FreeBSD question really, but I just started up a 
> motherboard with onboard SCSI (Adaptec AIC-7896), and for some odd 
> reason it freezes pre-POST before it attempts to boot and there isn't 
> any way where I can get into the BIOS to change the settings it seems. 
> Does anyone know how I can maybe disable the onboard SCSI controller 
> since it appears to hang while detecting disks?
>     Thanks a million!
> -Garrett

Just wondering... did some early P3 server motherboards halt waiting for 
a response from a floppy drive by chance?
-Garrett




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