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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:01:41 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        DrXyzzy@mediaone.net (Hal Snyder)
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 installs, 3.1 won't
Message-ID:  <199903222201.PAA68733@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vhfuhccv.fsf@gamera.hws> from Hal Snyder at "Mar 21, 1999  1:27:44 pm"

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Hal Snyder wrote...
> I'm sending this in on behalf of a friend; it seems to be a SCSI problem.
> 
> The motherboard and peripherals are about 1 year old.  The Walnut
> Creek FreeBSD-3.0 CD installs/runs just fine. NT4Sp4 runs, well, as
> well as you'd expect it to.
> 
> Copying files from the 3.1 CD seems to be almost twice as fast as the
> install from 3.0, but after about 30% of the way into /bin it stalls
> with repeated occurrences of "Unexpected busfree.  LASTPHASE == 0xa0",
> never recovering.
> 
> Hardware:
> 
> 1. Tyan S1696-DLUA motherboard (dual P-II 300's, Adaptec 7895 dual UWSCSI, etc.)
> 	AMI BIOS
> 	Adaptec BIOS V1.32
> 	Note: control-A related settings follow:
> 	AIC-7895 @ BUS: 00h  Device: 0Fh  Channel: A IRQ10 E800h
> 	AIC-7895 @ BUS: 00h  Device: 0Fh  Channel: B IRQ11 EC00h
> 	H/A SCSI ID=7
> 	Termination = Auto
> 	Parity = Enabled
> 	Sync = Yes
> 	Tranfer rate 40MB/sec max.
> 	Initiate Wide = Yes
> 	Reset SCSI at IC Init = Enabled
> 	Extended BIOS Translation = Enabled
> 	Host Adapter BIOS = Enabled
> 	Removable Support = Boot Only
> 	BIOS Support for Bootable CD = Enabled
> 	BIOS Support for INT13 Extensions = Enabled
> 
> 2. IBM DGVS09U UltraStar 9ZX 9.1GB 10,000 rpm UWSCSI drive
> 	On channel B as SCSI ID 0 (wide)
> 
> 3. Plextor PX-32i Ultraplex USCSI interface CD drive
> 	On channel A as SCSI ID 2 (narrow)


- This could be cabling or termination.
- It could be that the drive is dying.
- It could be a driver bug.

Does FreeBSD 3.0 still install okay?  Perhaps it would be better to install
3.0 and update via cvsup/make buildworld/make installworld to the latest
-stable.  There have been some Adaptec driver fixes since 3.1 went out.

If you'd rather go with a release/snapshot, you could try the latest
3.1-STABLE snapshot from here:

ftp://releng3.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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