From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 14:28:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA29610 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:28:59 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA29598 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:28:54 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA17262; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:28:34 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506032128.OAA17262@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: NCR810 problem? To: mdomsch@dellgate.us.dell.com (Matt Domsch) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mdomsch@dellgate.us.dell.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Matt Domsch" at Jun 3, 95 04:12:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2378 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > > > I tried installing 2.0.5-ALPHA today when I got the following error > > > on boot from the install program: > > > > > > assertion "cp == np->header.cp" failed: file "../../pci/ncr.c", line 5235 > > > assertion "cp" failed: file "../../pci/ncr.c", line 5236 > > > ncr0 targ0?: ERROR (80:100) (e-ab-2) (8/13) @ (10d4:e000000). > > > reg: da 10 0 13 47 8 0 1f 0 e 80 ab 80 0 3 0. > > > ncr0: restart (fatal error). > > > ncr0: reset by timeout. > > > sd0: error reading primary partition table from fsbn 0 (sd0 bn 0; cn 0 > > > tn 0 sn 0) > > > > > > > > > The install then will not continue. The disk in question is a > > > DEC DPS3107L (1020MB). I low-level formatted it prior to the install. > > > When this error started, I put a 100MB DOS partition on the disk which > > > works just fine. > > > > > "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > Humm.. I've been runing a pile of DEC DPS3053L drives (sell about 3 to 5 > > of them a week) and have never seen this on a NCR using those drives. > > > > These are the same series drives as the ones you are using. Have > > you ever installed FreeBSD on this before and this is a new bug, or > > have you been having this problem in the past? > > > > Are you using the active termination of the DSP3107L and have you > > tripple checked all your devices to make sure termination is correct? > > > > I have not tried to install FreeBSD before on these drives or this > particular kind of system, though Solaris 2.4 X86 works fine on it > with an identical hard disk. Just to be safe, I tried a different DEC > drive, and got the same results. I even went back to the 2.0R and > tried to install that, but often got SCSI resets on the disk which > took several seconds (like 15) every couple minutes, so I gave up on > that also. Yes, the disk is properly ID'd and terminated and the NCR > BIOS sees it and spins it up at system boot time. There are also 2 > other devices on the SCSI bus, a NEC CD-ROM, and a DAT tape drive, and > they are properly terminated and ID'd as well. Pull the NEC and the DAT drive, there is a problem that will cause the failure you are seing, but it should have happened only on the ID of the NEC or DAT drive. > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD