From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 20 20:51:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C9E37B418; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fAL4p4f38266; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:51:04 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: tmm@freebsd.org, sparc@freebsd.org, groudier@freebsd.org Subject: Re: main-sym.gz Message-ID: <20011120205104.D21537@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <200111210442.fAL4gQe43079@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111210442.fAL4gQe43079@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:42:26PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:42:26PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I noticed that tmm put a new Symbios kernel up on his Web area, so I > tried booting that, and it doesn't seem to work quite right, but does > at least get to the mountroot prompt: Tmm, Jake, and I worked on this for quite a while this afternoon. > I tried to tell it to mount da0a as root, which made it very unhappy: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a > (da0:sym0:0:0:0): Retrying Command > sym0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (0-a7-80) (10/9d) @ (scripta 400:f3100000). > sym0: script cmd = 9f030000 > sym0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0f 80 00 80 a7 80 00 07 02 00 00 40 00 08 ff ff ff. > sym0: PCI STATUS = 0x2000 > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset detected. > (da0:sym0:0:0:0): Retrying Command I got the same results. I've emailed the sym author to see if he can give some insight. > It's possible that there are hardware problems with this machine or > the SCSI card; I don't believe so. > earlier today it passed all diagnostics, but I just now > ran the diagnostics again and all it can say is ``Bus fault''. (But > it *was* working when it was last in service.) I'm open to > suggestions.... Power cycle the machine -- the card seems to be in a whacked (yep its a technical term :-)) state. > (I'd be happy to run on the internal IDE instead of the Symbios if > that can be made to work. Not at the moment. You need to get one of the 3rd party IDE controller's Soren supports. I am using the HighPoint HPT370 and I believe Jake has the same. > I'm told that the CMD646 is much more > reasonable than the CMD640 was and shouldn't be too hard to support.) That is news. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message