Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:48:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael W." <m_wall@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me out Message-ID: <19980728104801.B716@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35BD1685.802855FC@hotmail.com>; from Michael W. on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 06:08:37PM -0600 References: <35BD1685.802855FC@hotmail.com>
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On Monday, 27 July 1998 at 18:08:37 -0600, Michael W. wrote: > Guys, I've been everywhere for help on this, and no one seems to know > the answer to my > problem. (correcting mutilated message) > Guys, I've been everywhere for help on this, and no one seems to > know the answer to my problem. > I have an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI board with my 12x Plextor cdrom and > Conner tape drive running off of it. When I recieved BSD in the > mail, I hurriedly unwrapped it and proceeded to boot it up and do a > quick visual pre-install config of the kernel. But when it boots, it > takes forever probing each of the scsi id's, and comes up with > nothing in each slot. (Each slot except the first, which is my hard > drive.) > > Here's what it gives me as far as the dmesg: > ---------------------------------------------- > > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 10 on PCI > 0:11:0 > ahc0: aic 7880 Wide Channel, SCSI id = 7, 16 SCBs > ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (ahc 0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST19171W 0023" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0 (ahc 0:0:0): Direct-Access 8683MB > ahc0: board is not responding This last message is your problem. How long does it occur after the previous one? > (ahc 0:3:0):SCB 0x0- timedout in datain phase, SCSISIGI = 0x44 > SEQADDR = 0x128 SCSIEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x0 SSTAT1 = 0x3 > (ahc0 0:3:0): abort message in message buffer > ahc0: board is not responding > cmd fail You don't say which SCSI ID your CD-ROM and tape drive have, but I'd guess that one of them is ID 3. It's confusing your controller. If it's the tape drive, try disconnecting it for the duration of the install process. If it's the CD-ROM, check your controller parameters (the Ctrl-A menu during POST). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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