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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:17:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        reptco@chicagonet.net
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, wberryman@fcr.follett.com
Subject:   Re: BSD 2.2.5 - ahco board is not responding
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971207181422.12213D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199712062304.4452100@Chicago>

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On Sat, 6 Dec 1997 reptco@chicagonet.net wrote:

> Let me tell you about the hardware I have first.  I have an Intel
> Pentium 200 (in an Asus motherboard) with 64M of RAM.  I have no
> IDE/EIDE hard drives or CD-Rom drives attached to this motherboard.  I
> have an Adaptec 2940 UW controller card (BIOS 1.23), with a Quantum
> Atlas II 9.1G UW SCSI Drive (SCSI Device 0), IRQ 12. I also have a
> Plextor 12 plex SCSI Cd-Rom drive (SCSI Device 3).  I use a Seagate /
> Conner Tapestor SCSI 4G/8G tape drive for backups (SCSI Device 2).  I am
> using a Matrox Millinnium 4 MB video card - IRQ 11, and a CardWare Labs
> Inc (CWLI) network board -IRQ 9 (BSD & NT recognize it as a Realtek card
> - not sure why). 

Any NE2000- Plug&Pray Ethernet card uses the RealTek interface, or is
based on a true RealTek chip.  It's generic :-)

> The Hard drive is a UW drive, cabled to the UW port on the card.  The
> tape drive and CD-Rom drive are 50 pin SCSI, and cabled to the 50 pin
> SCSI port.  The card is set in the bios at ID #7, and multiple LUNs/boot
> devices are enabled. 

OK.

> >From the OS/2 Boot Manager Menu - I am redoing my drive, so the FS Type
> on all are Unformatted: 
> 
> Name		Status        Access		FS Type		MBytes
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         	Startable	Primary		Boot Manager	7
> DOS 6.22	Bootable	C:Primary			2000
> Warp 4.0	Bootable	D:Logical			2000
> NT 4.0	Bootable	E:Logical			2000
> Misc Stuff	Bootable	F:Logical			1500
> BSD 2.2.5	None		G:Logical or :Primary		1161
> 
> I have booted via 3.5" Diskette, and CD-Rom.  Since the CD-Rom works
> fine, I'm sticking with booting via my Plextor. 
> 
> I put in the BSD CD, and reboot.  It comes up with the first boot menu,
> and I let it go.  I then use the menu that says something like "Boot in
> Visual Mode", and I use that to configure my system.  I take the bus
> mastering stuff out, the Adaptec 15X stuff out, Most of the NIC cards
> out, and get the settings down to what I have in my system with the
> correct IRQ's (my motherboard shows them after the BIOS info) and no
> conflicts. When I Save it and continue, it recognizes the IDE ports on
> my board correctly at 14 & 15.  It recognizes the CardWare Labs NIC card
> as a RealTek card correctly at IRQ 9.  It recognizes my Adaptec 2940 UW
> card corretly at IRQ 12, and then says waiting for SCSI Devices to
> settle.  It then says the 2940 is not responding. It makes no sense to
> me that the card isn't working.  

Check your termination; the 2940 is acting adversely to the probe
commands.  

> ahc0: Adapter 2940 Ultra SCSI Host Adapter rev0 inta irq12 on PCI0:10
> ahc0: Aic0 (I think the AIC0 is correct) 7880 Wide Channel SCSI Id=7 16SCBS
> ahc0: Waiting for SCSI devices to settle
> (ahc0:0:0) Quantum XP39100W LXY4 Type 0 Fixed SCSI 2
> sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct Access 8682MB
> ahc0: Board is not responding
> ahco:2:0 SCB 0x0 - timed out in datain phase sCSI SIGI=0x44

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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