From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 20: 1:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castle.dreaming.org (castle.dreaming.org [216.221.214.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6639D37B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:01:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAD41g422602 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:01:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) Received: from cr411661a (shadow.dreamlabs.com [216.129.214.38]) (authenticated) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id fAD41eY22594 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:01:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) From: "Mit Rowe" To: "questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: SCSI problem Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I've got a bit of a weird problem i'm hoping someone has some hints for... I'm installing FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE (also tried todays's snapshot of -STABLE) via floppy onto a dual-processor ASUS motherboard with an Adaptec 7890 on-board SCSI card and an IBM SCSI drive. I can install fine, but when i reboot, the boot manager pops up with the usual F1 prompt, but when i press F1, the machine beeps and nothing happens. Further pressing cause no more beeps. The weird thing is that with a FreeBSD 3.2 system on that machine, everything worked fine. So, i threw in an IDE drive that i have a GENERIC 4.3 on so i could at least boot the drive and get some diagnostics... Here's the card and drive in dmesg: ahc0: port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xe1000000-0xe1000fff irq 12 at device 6.0 on pci0 aic7890/91: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8715MB (17850000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1111C) Now... i'm not sure is this is to be expected or not, but fdisk and disklabel show different geometry, and disklabel says there are *8* partitions when there is 4...: ariel# fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=29310 heads=29 sectors/track=21 (609 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=29310 heads=29 sectors/track=21 (609 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 21, size 17849769 (8715 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 21/ head 28 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Disklabel comes up: ariel# disklabel /dev/da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 21 tracks/cylinder: 29 sectors/cylinder: 609 cylinders: 29309 sectors/unit: 17849769 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1024000 1048576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1721*- 3403*) b: 1048576 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 1721*) c: 17849769 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 29309*) e: 8388608 2072576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3403*- 17177*) f: 7388585 10461184 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 17177*- 29309*) ariel# disklabel /dev/da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 21 tracks/cylinder: 29 sectors/cylinder: 609 cylinders: 29309 sectors/unit: 17849769 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1024000 1048576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1721*- 3403*) b: 1048576 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 1721*) c: 17849769 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 29309*) e: 8388608 2072576 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 3403*- 17177*) f: 7388585 10461184 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 17177*- 29309*) I'm going to try reinstalling and specify the geometry, but i thought i'd ask in case someone has any hints. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message