Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:56:58 +0800 From: weeguan@hem.passagen.se (Lim Wee Guan) To: jmdupoux@lineone.net Cc: weeguan@hem.passagen.se, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940UWD -- No BIOS banner at Boot Message-ID: <20020420135658.A529@nexus> In-Reply-To: <3CBF6A69.17.174BEAC@localhost>; from jmdupoux@lineone.net on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:52:57AM %2B0100 References: <3CBF6A69.17.174BEAC@localhost>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:52:57AM +0100, jmdupoux@lineone.net wrote: > Hello Wee Guan, > This might be a long shot, but since the card does seem to be working > normally then its BIOS was probably just disabled in the config when it was > used before (did u get the card 2nd-hand or out of a Macintosh machine ?) - > but an easy way to fix it could be to re-flash the card's BIOS (not your MB > bios) - I'm pretty sure AIC-7880 series are flashable, and you will just need a > quick visit to Adaptec's site and a 5 minute boot into DOS to see if it works > Jean-Mark Dupoux > jmdupoux_@_lineone.net Hi Jean-Mark, Thanks for the help. I noticed that there are no BIOS upgrades for the 3940UW series. The only one that they have on the website is for 3940 and they explicitly state that the BIOS is only for 3940 and 3940W. Don't want to flash some incompatible BIOS in. ;-) You are right, the card is probably 2nd hand (though the shop I bought it from says that it is brand new), but I got it cheap, at around US$50. My money is on the card BIOS as well, but if there is no BIOS image online to flash, it looks like there is nothing much I can do. Will keep looking around. Thanks again. Regards, Wee Guan. > > Hello all, I have just put a Adaptec 3940UWD (AIC-7880 based) into my PIII- > 550 running on an ASUS P3BF mainboard. The card works fine in FreeBSD > and Windows once the OS has taken control, but on the machines I have tried > it on, there is no Adaptec BIO banner at the boot time, and as a result, the > system cannot be booted via this card. I have tried everything from flashing up > my M/B BIOS to trying every option in the BIOS config. I understand that this > is not really FreeBSD related, as the problem occurs before it even starts, but > I'm grasping at straws here... ;) Many thanks in advance. The dmesg are > appended below: host> dmesg | grep ahc ahc0: <Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI > adapter> port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xd3800000-0xd380 0fff irq 11 at device > 4.0 on pci2 ahc1: <Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xa400-0xa4ff > mem 0xd3000000-0xd300 0fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2 da1 at ahc0 bus 0 > target 4 lun 0 host> dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5- > STABLE #0: Sat Apr 13 18:57:32 SGT 2002 > weeguan@host.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOST Timecounter "i8254" > frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (551.25- > MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 > Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,M > TRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = > 1073725440 (1048560K bytes) avail memory = 1041301504 (1016896K > bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03c2000. Pentium Pro MTRR > support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00f0e80 > apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, > connected at v1.2 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 > interface pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on > motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host > to PCI bridge> mem 0xe4000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <Intel > 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI > bus> on pcib1 pci1: <NVidia model 0110 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11 > isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA > bus> on isab0 pci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA controller> at 4.1 pci0: <Intel > 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 4.2 chip0: <Intel 82371AB Power > management controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 pci0: > <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1229) at 9.0 irq 14 pci0: <unknown > card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1229) at 10.0 irq 15 dpt0: <DPT Caching > SCSI RAID Controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 > dpt0: DPT PM2044UW FW Rev. 07H1, 1 channel, 64 CCBs pcib2: <DEC > 21050 PCI-PCI bridge> at device 12.0 on pci0 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 > ahc0: <Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem > 0xd3800000-0xd3800fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2 aic7880: Ultra Wide > Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: <Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI > adapter> port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xd3000000-0xd3000fff irq 10 at device > 5.0 on pci2 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs orm0: > <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcc7ff,0xd0000-0xd17ff,0xd4000- > 0xd57ff,0xd8000-0xd8fff on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port > 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller > (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on > atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model > IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df > iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 > flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 > sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found > /NIBBLE Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Hewlett-Packard HP > LaserJet 4MP> HP ENHANCED PCL5,PJL,POSTSCRIPT lpt0: <Printer> > on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port pca0 at port 0x40 on isa0 sbc0: <Creative > ViBRA16C> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on > isa0 pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.13> on sbc0 IPsec: Initialized Security Association > Processing. IP Filter: v3.4.20 initialized. Default = block all, Logging = enabled > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Mounting root from > ufs:/dev/da0s1a da0 at dpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <IBM DCAS-32160W > S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 2063MB (4226213 512 byte > sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C) cd0 at dpt0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 cd0: > <MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-8005 2.0d> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 > device cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not > present da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 da1: <IBM DNES-309170W SA30> > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, > offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte > sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) module_register: module miibus/ukphy already > exists! linker_file_sysinit "miibus.ko" failed to register! 17 fxp0: <Intel Pro > 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xd000-0xd03f mem 0xd5000000- > 0xd50fffff,0xd5800000-0xd5800fff irq 14 at device 9.0 on pci0 fxp0: Ethernet > address 00:02:b3:36:eb:c4 fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port > 0xb800-0xb83f mem 0xd4000000-0xd401ffff,0xd4800000-0xd4800fff irq 15 > at device 10.0 on pci0 fxp1: Ethernet address 00:02:b3:3c:bd:7c inphy0: > <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, > 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> > on miibus1 inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, > auto module_register: module netgraph already exists! linker_file_sysinit > "netgraph.ko" failed to register! 17 tun0: promiscuous mode enabled -- Lim, > Wee Guan | PGP Fingerprint weeguan@hem.passagen.se | 430F EF64 2C43 > A672 67B3 ICQ: 46537067 | BFE5 6DAA B0C1 E9B1 6332 To > Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe > freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Lim, Wee Guan | PGP Fingerprint weeguan@hem.passagen.se | 430F EF64 2C43 A672 67B3 ICQ: 46537067 | BFE5 6DAA B0C1 E9B1 6332 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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