From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 17 10:55:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.chuckr.org (picnic.chuckr.org [216.254.96.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF5B37B423; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.chuckr.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8HHtA059705; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:55:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 21960 In-Reply-To: <200009160706.BAA14552@caspian.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > In article you wrote: > > > > Maybe you shouldn't read too much into that one report, Ken. I have a > > different set of symptoms. I can talk to the drive (the IBM 18G > > Ultra160), my problem is that I can't coax it into booting. Anything > > short of booting (disklabelling, newfs'ing, mounting, running as a > > secondary drive) works fine. I do happen to run current, tho. > > Are you able to load the loader? This smells like a BIOS issue. > If you can tell me what MB, MB BIOS Rev, and card BIOS rev you > have, I can try to find out if there are any known BIOS issues > that might explain your symptoms. Nope. I get a plain blank screen, as soon as the BIOS part of booting is done. I have no indication it gets as far as the loader. I could be a *very* early loader problem, a problem installing the loader, or even a hardware problem totally unrelated to FreeBSD (as far as I can so far prove). I'm quite willing to do testing. Nothing on the drive so far that I coudn't recreate. I have two drives, they act exactly alike. They are IBM DDYS-T18350 18.2 gb drives. There were suggestions much earlier on this list that maybe using the IBM-supplied disk utils to zero the disk would help. I've tried them, zeroing first the boot sectors, and then when that didn't work, the entire disk. No change, it still refuses to boot from the disk. The disk continues to work fine in all other respects. I've tried using both disklabel and boot0cfg (separately) to install the boot code, no luck. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org| electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message