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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:45:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing 2.2.1 problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014094349.2456E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971013112410.00819100@central.TanSoft.COM>

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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Rob Miracle wrote:

> I just recieved two new pentium II-300's and I am having problems
> installing FreeBSD on them.  They have an Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host
> adapter with a 4.3gb IBM SCSI drive.  It has some 3D graphics adapter and
> an Intel EtherExpress 10/100+ Ethernet PCI card.  
> 
> The set up is identical to some 8 other boxes we have gotten from this
> company (SAG). 
> 
> Partially through the CD install I get a message on VT-2 that says:
> 
> sd0(ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0  timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI ==
> 0x0 SCOADDR == 0x6
> sd0(ahc0:0:0): Queueing an Abort SCB

Your Adaptec is going bananas.  check your termination and cabling,
something is making it really unhappy.  Also try diasabling sync transfers
or wide negotiation.

You might try getting the 2.2.5 CDROM when it's released very soon or
install a 2.2.5 beta from releng22.freebsd.org.

> Any way, I really can't move forward to 2.2.2 and I am going to try 2.2.5
> on one of the machines to see if its something with the 300mhz and the
> 2.2.1 drivers, but if 2.2.5 has the same reboot bug that 2.2.2 has, I
> really can't use it.

Hm :-/

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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