From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 14:38:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aw163.netaddress.usa.net (aw163.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3F2E151F5 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elcoz@usa.net) Received: (qmail 22524 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Apr 1999 19:46:25 -0000 Message-ID: <19990409194625.22523.qmail@aw163.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.63 by aw163 via web-mailer(M3.0.0.45) on Fri Apr 9 19:46:25 GMT 1999 Date: 9 Apr 99 15:46:25 EDT From: Mr.Delicious To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE -- can't find CD-ROM Cc: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.45) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Reynolds wrote: > Sorry to rehash this again, but I cannot fathom that I'm the only perso= n on > = > the earth who has seen this problem (if it's a real problem). > = > I am running an Asus P2B-DS, BIOS 1008, Adaptec onboard 7890 controller= > with > 2 Viking II LVD drives, a Toshiba CD-ROM and Yamaha CD-RW hanging from = the > respective outlets. As far as I know and can tell, all termination is > correct. > NT can see all devices and seems pretty "stable" (as far as NT goes :) = in > accessing them. > = > When I boot from the 3.1-RELEASE floppies and get to the "Media" choice= > under sysinstall, it simply will not recognize that I've got a CD-ROM > device > connected to the bus. Sysinstall comes up too quickly for me to see the= > "probe" messages for the scsi bus during boot. > = > Certainly somewhere in the world, somebody has an Asus P2B-DS (or a P2B= -S > for that matter) and has installed 3.1-RELEASE from scsi CD-ROM attache= d to > = > the onboard controller. I would appreciate success stories from those w= ho > have! Could you please tell me which BIOS revision you have as well as = SCSI > = > bios revision number. Mine is "v2.01". > = > Note: When I use the 3.0-RELEASE boot disks (or boot from CD-ROM via th= e > scsi BIOS) sysinstall sees the CD-ROM device(s) just fine. > = > Any hints at where to go from here and/or success stories with details > would > be much appreciated. My current thoughts are that I'm just going to hav= e to > = > install 3.0-RELEASE and live with it until I can cvsup the code and try= to > find out what has broken. > = > On a semi-related note: Adaptec has BIOS updates for the 2940U2W boards= but > = > they say "this won't work on OEM or embedded controllers". Has anybody = had > the cajones to try and update the BIOS to see if they were just BS-ing > (i.e. not wanting to support their products unless it was an 'official'= > add-in card) or if it really fubars your system. Just curious. > = > Thanks!!! > = I've had the same problem with an Panasonic SCSI-II drive connected to an= Adaptec 2910b controller. The way I was able to get the installation rout= ine to find the cdrom was to disable the internal cache, the external cache..= =2E ALL speed enhancing options in the BIOS. The only rational explanation I could come up with is that the Adapte= c driver, on some machines, does NOT wait "15 seconds for the SCSI devices = to settle", and therefore assumes that there are no SCSI devices on the syst= em before the poor cdrom has a chance to initialise. Maybe there is some problem with the way how the driver determines ho= w long is 15 seconds, at least on my system anyway. You could try disabling some of the PCI options in your BIOS first ( = such as PCI Burst). Only as a last resort did I disable the caches, because th= en the install took ten times as long. You can always reenable ALL the optio= ns after installation. My system works like a charm now. Oh, and by the way, hit Scroll Lock after it does the driver check an= d use PgUP-PageDn to see those messages that scrolled by too quickly. Cosmo Holding. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=3D1= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message