From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 15:55:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F31E14F0E for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ashley@pirovich.com) Received: from insomnia.sympatico.ca (HSE-Ottawa-ppp75521.sympatico.ca [216.208.13.234]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20443; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:57:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ashley@localhost) by insomnia.sympatico.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA77912; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:58:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ashley) From: ashley Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:58:37 -0400 To: Tom Hornyak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI problems/questions Message-ID: <19991003185837.A77697@insomnia.sympatico.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello, i built a new system a couple days ago and also suffered this problem whne i try to boot the floppies. what i found i had done was i had plugged the terminated end of the 50pin cable into the scsi controler instead of the cdrom. whne i reversed it, the system booted fine everytime. sine you have used the system successfully before this may be a different problem, but i found for me that the cable was incorrectly plugged into the controller/cdrom. Ciao. Ashley. On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Tom Hornyak wrote: > I get the following way... too often when booting from install floppies. I > was able to go through the install once successfully, but now I am getting > the same thing on re-booting from the SCSI disk. Sometimes it does boot > successfully! > > Normal kernel boot/config stuff - from the SCSI disk, no problem...then > > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > ahc0:A:6 no active SCB for reconnecting target - issuing BUS DEVICE RESET > SAVED_TCL == 0x60, ARG_1 == 0xff, SEQ_FLAGS = 0x0 > (probe0:ahc0:0:6:1): SCB 0x8 - timed out in datain phase. SEQADDR == 0x14f > (probe0:ahc0:0:6:1): BDR message in message buffer > (probe0:ahc0:0:6:1): SCB 0x8 - timed out in datain phase. SEQADDR == 0x14f > (probe0:ahc0:0:6:1): no longer in timeout, status = 34b > ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Rest. 1SCBs aborted > panic: ahc0: brkadrint, Illegal Host Access at seqaddr = 0x0 > > then goes into automatic reboot. > > This is an old 486DX250, VLB motherboard, 40mb ram, Adaptec 2842 SCSI > controller, no IDE controller, 3COM 3C509 Ethernet. SCSI IDs, 2 = Plextor > CD-ROM, 6 = QUANTUM PD1800S (1.8 gig drive), 7 = host adapter. > > This system was running windows NT successfully before I trashed the disk, > DOS boots ok from floppy and has no problems accessing the SCSI devices. I > have low level formatted the drive and ran a bad block and surface scan - no > problems. This system has successfully run Linux in the past. > > I am investigating FreeBSD/Apache server for an e-commerce site. So far > Linux looks easier to install. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ================================================================= Ashley Pirovich ashley@pirovich.com http://pirovich.com "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." Charles Caleb Colton ================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message