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Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:39:57 -0800 Message-ID: <1103765997.41ca21ed1e051@mail.chubbo.net> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:39:57 -0800 From: Joseph To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Subject: 5.3R and 3ware 9500s hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:40:00 -0000 hello there's. i'm building a new machine to run freebsd 5.3 with two 3ware 9500s-12MI cards. i installed the OS before i connected the drives, and since i have connected them, the system hangs on boot. the system also hangs on boot directly from the install cd with the drives connected. i have only a cd drive connected to the onboard ide, no floppy, and the onboard scsi is disabled via jumper. other hardware is: supermicro X6DH8-XG2 motherboard (E7520 chipset), two 3.6GHz xeon, 4GB ram, two 36gb 10k sata drives mirrored, and 12x 300gb sata drives. there's also an IPMI card, but it's likely irrelevant to this question. i've already cvsup'ed and installed 5.3R-p2 and a new kernel (with the carp patches). i can boot in safe mode and operate fine, but with only one cpu. i've disabled ACPI in device.hints (can't boot with ACPI enabled), and i've tried setting the following in loader.conf, which i read is the same as safe mode: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 hw.ata.wc=0 hw.eisa_slots=0 i've tried using the twa.ko from 3ware, both release and development, and using the sources to compile a kernel, which fails at twa compilation. both 3ware cards have the same bios and firmware, which are: Firmware FE9X 2.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.047 during verbose boot, the last part of the messages are: ata1: reiniting channel .. ata1: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat1=01 ata1-master: stat=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x14 msb=0xeb ata1-slave: stat=0x01 err=0x04 lsb=0x04 msb=0x7f ata1: reset tp2 stat0=00 stat1=01 devices=0x4 ata1: resetting done .. ata1: reiniting channel .. ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): error 5 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): error 5 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted ata1: reiniting channel .. ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out ata1: device config done .. ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): error 5 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): error 5 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted any helpful information is appreciated. thanks! joe