From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 23:12:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC2916A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:12:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lramos3@satx.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0166F43D46 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:12:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lramos3@satx.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (cpe-66-69-40-1.satx.res.rr.com [66.69.40.1]) by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6MNC5Rh006263 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42E17D45.7090804@satx.rr.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:05 -0500 From: luis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:56:15 +0000 Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 + DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch PCI card (Adaptec) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:12:10 -0000 I'm trying to install anything on my Dell SC 1420: 512 MB, SATA 40GB, with SATA 0 and PATA-2 both enabled and RAID off. Attempting FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.3 installation, both stop at "Waiting 15 secs for SCSI drives to settle". Just prior to this message is "ad4: 38146MB ,WDC WD400BD-75JM......... at ata2-master SATA150", and the only If I escape into loader prompt, type "load aac", followed by lsmod I will see at the end "modules: aac.1". I then type boot and very early see barely a quick glimpse of a message about aac not registering, the number 17, and then the boot process stops at the same "Waiting 15secs for SCSI drives to settle". What else do I need to do in order to figure out what is going on with this computer? By the way, the man page for the aac driver states "This driver is not compatible with Dell controllers that have version 1.x firmware. The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS POST and driver attach messages." During boot process a message states "BIOS Revision A02". Last bit of information: when trying to install in verbose mode there are messages about the ATA-2 master controller and information about ad4 drive, then "ar FreeBSD check1 failed". At the same time, I have tried to install Mandrake 10 and the process stops when it the attempts to install disk drivers. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Luis