Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 18:03:24 From: reptco@chicagonet.net To: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org, reptco@chicagonet.net, wberryman@fcr.follett.com Subject: BSD 2.2.5 - ahco board is not responding Message-ID: <199712062304.4452100@Chicago> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208094241.749D@pooh.cdrom.com>
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Hi. My name is Wayne, and I just purchased FreeBSD 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek. I am now trying
to install it in my Pentium 200 - with 64M of RAM, and having a few problems with it. I hope I don't
overload you with the info below, but I figured better to much than too little.
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).
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.
Let me explain my drive partitioning setup, where I would like to install BSD, and what has NOT worked so
far.
>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. The card is working fine. The Plextor
is booting off the 2940. This system has worked correctly under DOS, NT, and OS/2 for months now. FreeBSD
recognizes the EXACT Adaptec card, so I am sure it has drivers for it.
What is happening here? HELP - PLEASE!!
Here is what I see on the screen (relating to the 2940), as close as I have written down:
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
It then tries ahco:2:1, ahc0:2:2 - and on and on. It fails on them all. I don't understand why. Can you
explain what is going on here to me? What do I need to do differently?
Also - From the Boot manager menu above, I want to install BSD on the last part of the drive. Is there any
problem with this that you can forsee? Should I make it a logical or primary partition? The other OS's
won't recognize that part of the drive, but I am guessing that UNIX will, since it was built on/for SCSI
devices. Can you also give me advice on the best way to configure the drive partitioning for BSD?
Will I be able to use Boot Manager to boot to BSD?
Sorry for the multiple questions, but I would like to get this all straight ASAP. While I have all of my
system information here I wanted to ask the experts.
Thanks in advance for your help, I am lost here.
Wayne.
P.S.
I have copied myself into both my home ISP and work email address, as I want to be able to solve this
problem ASAP. If I get mail during the weekday I can respond with any questions you might have ASAP.
Thanks again.
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