Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:03:12 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble installing 5.0-DP1 to a Tyan Thunder K7 (aic7xxx)... Message-ID: <20020416210312.A81662@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAjQHXypTRWUeX0Da3WGxUUMKAAAAQAAAAB5S/GF2FpEylB6XRir51UAEAAAAA@attbi.com>; from jordan.breeding@attbi.com on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:50:13AM -0000 References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAjQHXypTRWUeX0Da3WGxUUMKAAAAQAAAAB5S/GF2FpEylB6XRir51UAEAAAAA@attbi.com>
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:50:13 -0000, Jordan Breeding wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently aquired a new Tyan Thunder K7 (S2462UNG) with on-board > Adaptec scsi. Everything with the scsi works great in DOS, Linux and > Windows. However, I hate using Windows, and Linux is giving me lots of > trouble with this board in regards to rebooting and shuting down > properly. I was playing with some old FreeBSD CDROMs I had laying > around the other and it appeared that from the CDROM at least FreeBSD > can correctly reboot this machine. While I still use linux for the bulk > of my work I decided I could at least do a small install of FreeBSD on > my virtually unused SCSI 4 GB hd at Channel A, id 0 and go from there. > So I first decided to boot from the 5.0-DP1 iso which I downloaded, but > this didn't work as I expected, the disc booted, found my IDE hard > drive, found my SCSI CDROM and went into the sysinstal without ever > finding my SCSI hard drive. So then I tried the 4.5 discs which I had > laying around. I no longer have my 4.4 discs but something tells me > those wouldn't have done much better, and I would want to be able to do > CVS pulls of current anyway which was the original breakage I noticed. So did 4.5 work or not? > So since I do not have a serial console laying around at the moment I > decided to do a boot -v and then boot the "live" filesystem and dump the > dmesg to a floppy. In this email (sorry about the length) I have > included a dmesg output from Linux (which works as far as the SCSI goes, > I am using 2.4.19-pre6 with some other patches and am using the new > aic7xxx driver from Justin Gibbs) as well as the dmesg from a boot -v > showing the failure of the FreeBSD 5.0-DP1 boot to find my Channel A and > hence failure to find my hard drive. Thanks for any help, please let me > know if there is anything I can try to fix this. I do not have room > anywhere on my current IDE drive for FreeBSD so I need to try and > eventually get a fixed install method so that I can install to the scsi > drive. Thanks for any help which you can give me in solving this > situation. As for the -current problem, Justin says it is fixed in a newer version of his driver that he has not yet committed. I assume that fix will be merged to -stable as well. > PS - I am not on this list so please Cc: me on replies. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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