Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 12:05:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: Eric.Vanbezooijen@Eng.Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD install failure on ASUS/NCR PCI system Message-ID: <199505221905.MAA05429@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <9505221842.AA02695@logrus.Eng.Sun.COM> from "Eric van Bezooijen" at May 22, 95 11:42:44 am
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> > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a ASUS 90 Mhz Pentium system (16 Mb RAM, > 512 Kb cache), with a NCR PCI scsi card (53c810 based). > > I have two drives, a Quantum 1.0 Gb and a Quantum 4.3 Gb drive. My 1.0 > Gb drive has 1 DOS partition (the whole drive). I wanted to set up a small > (128 Mb) partition on the 4.3 Gb drive for DOS, and install FreeBSD on > the rest of the 4.3 Gb drive. We know that we are having problems with the Quantum Grand Prix 4.3G drive, does this drive work fine under DOS/Windows?? (I have not been able to test it here since I don't have one, the failure reports I have from Jordan are for FreeBSD only. If infact the drive works fine under DOS/Windows on the ncr controller I will see what I can do about makeing it work under FreeBSD, if the drive has problems under DOS/Windows I can't do much about it :-(. I have some strong suspecions about the ncr scsi sequencer code we are using since I have at least one devices that works fine with DOS but fails to work with FreeBSD on the exact same controller/mb setup. There have been some resently submitted patches, but they simply defeat sync negotation and such, and this device I am having problems with should do sync (seem to recall it doing sync on my bt445). > However, I cannot get FreeBSD to boot up and recognize my SCSI disks. When > the boot sequence is setting up devices, I get the following error: > > Changing root device to fd0c > sd0(ncr0:0:0); assertion "cp == np->header.cp" failed: > file "../../i386/pci/ncr.c", line 5172 > ncr0 targ 0?: ERROR (80:100:29) (8/13)@ 360cc:e000000). > ncr0: restart (fatal error) > ncr0: aborting job... > > After a while I get: > DOS partition I/O error Yep, basically the same thing every one with a Quantum Grand Prix and a NCR 810 controller is reporting.... ... > Any clues ? I really want to make FreeBSD work! Is my hard drive too large > (4.3 Gb) ? It is not the size of the drive, it is that particular model we are having problem with (note, the Grand Prix is a SCSI-III device, I run Atlas drives here which are SCSI-II without these problems). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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