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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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