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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:51:04 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        tmm@freebsd.org, sparc@freebsd.org, groudier@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: main-sym.gz
Message-ID:  <20011120205104.D21537@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200111210442.fAL4gQe43079@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:42:26PM -0500
References:  <200111210442.fAL4gQe43079@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:42:26PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> I noticed that tmm put a new Symbios kernel up on his Web area, so I
> tried booting that, and it doesn't seem to work quite right, but does
> at least get to the mountroot prompt:

Tmm, Jake, and I worked on this for quite a while this afternoon.


> I tried to tell it to mount da0a as root, which made it very unhappy:
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a
> (da0:sym0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
> sym0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (0-a7-80) (10/9d) @ (scripta 400:f3100000).
> sym0: script cmd = 9f030000
> sym0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0f 80 00 80 a7 80 00 07 02 00 00 40 00 08 ff ff ff.
> sym0: PCI STATUS = 0x2000
> (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset detected.
> (da0:sym0:0:0:0): Retrying Command

I got the same results.  I've emailed the sym author to see if he can
give some insight.
 

> It's possible that there are hardware problems with this machine or
> the SCSI card;

I don't believe so.

> earlier today it passed all diagnostics, but I just now
> ran the diagnostics again and all it can say is ``Bus fault''.  (But
> it *was* working when it was last in service.)  I'm open to
> suggestions....

Power cycle the machine -- the card seems to be in a whacked (yep its a
technical term :-)) state.

> (I'd be happy to run on the internal IDE instead of the Symbios if
> that can be made to work.

Not at the moment.  You need to get one of the 3rd party IDE controller's
Soren supports.  I am using the HighPoint HPT370 and I believe Jake has
the same.

> I'm told that the CMD646 is much more
> reasonable than the CMD640 was and shouldn't be too hard to support.)

That is news.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)

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