From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 5 11:13:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.psn.ie (mailhub.psn.ie [194.106.150.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C55F15206 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:13:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ad@psn.ie) Received: from vmunix.psn.ie ([194.106.150.252]) by mailhub.psn.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 10IzxR-0002tJ-00; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:08:26 +0000 Received: from localhost.psn.ie ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by vmunix.psn.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10IzyX-00004p-00; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:09:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:09:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Andy Doran To: Bernd Walter Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, stephw@xs4all.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangs on external disks In-Reply-To: <19990305174344.A85423@cicely7.cicely.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe that this is an issue with CAM. I have a bunch of DEC RZ25 disks here which work fine with ULTRIX, NetBSD and Linux on several different machines. After upgrading from FreeBSD-2.2.6 to 3.0 (and -current) the system hangs on boot whenever an RZ25 is hooked up. This is with a crappy 'ol Adaptec 1542CP controller. Andy. > > > We now got 3 boxes converted from bsdi to freebsd 3.1R with two > > > adaptec 2940U2W with Seagate ST39102 ultra2lv disks. We tried > > > attaching only one outside disk to only one controller but the > > > problem still persists. Once in a while freebsd will not boot, but > > > hang during boot up, after 'waiting for scsi devices to settle.' > > > We tried the same controller with the same scsi setup, and the same > > > disks in a linux box and the problem didnt occur, so it's definetely > > > some freebsd problem. > > > > > > Is this problem known yet, and is there some fix for it ? > > > > A possibly related problem we've seen here: FreeBSD sometimes needs a > > hard reset (hit reset button) to reboot, while a software reboot will > > hang during bootup. > > > > This happens on FreeBSD boxes with 3.1R or 3.1-STABLE, onboard Adaptec > > 7890 U2W controller. Various (Seagate, IBM) LVD disks on LVD chain, > > *and* DAT on single-ended chain. Using verbose boot, we see that the > > hang occurs while probing the DAT and/or the CDROM player on the SE > > chain. > > > I also seeing this kind of problem on 3 independent ASUS P2BLS Boards. > Another board (Maybe later revision) is not showing this. > We have tried a bios update and several FreeBSD Versions including some > 4.0-current - but the problem still exists. > I remember that boot -v showed something that I wanted to send to the > FreeBSD-SCSI list - but I didn't yet because I don't have it logged. > It stopped after probing some but not all drives before it would print the > non -v informations. > I expect this problem has something to do with the aic revision on that boards. > I'll try to get the boot -v informations and the revision next week. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message