Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 14:54:56 -0700 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 10-STABLE CD PowerMac3, 4 installation stuck repeating CAM status: Command timeout Message-ID: <FA5EC1E9-CABB-44CA-9850-7B206D3AA0C3@dsl-only.net>
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This is a report for: CDs made from = FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-powerpc-20140528-r266807-disc1.iso (md5 verified) Also for: CDs made from = FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-powerpc-20140525-r266655-disc1.iso (nearly = identical behavior) I have recently been experimenting with basic installation and = configuring of FreeBSD and some Linux variants on some old PowerMacs and = one old Pentium D PC. I will note up front that Mac OS X 10.4 installation media and the Linux = media that I've tried all boot the configurations listed below just = fine, can do installs, and so on. So the hardware appears to be okay. 1st Context: PowerMac3,4 466MHz (Early 2001) with one ATA "disk" drive = (a SSD with an adapter), a Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-7000 drive on a separate = ATA bus, and 1.5GBytes of RAM, ATY,Rage6. Booting from either CD eventually goes silent for a bit and then starts = reporting the following. Most of the lines I'm reporting below start = with "(aprobe0:ata1:0:1:0):" so I'll not repeat that part of the lines. ATAPI_IDENTIFY ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 CAM status: Command timeout Retrying command ATAPI_IDENTIFY ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 CAM status: Command timeout Error 5, Retries exhausted run_interrupt_driven_hooks: Still waiting after 60 seconds for = xpt_config Such lines repeat and another run_interrupt_driven_hooks notice is put = out for 120 seconds. After that there are no more examples of that = particular line are generated that I saw. It seems to be indefinitely = retrying, generating those other messages as it goes. = http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/077091.html= reports something similar against "10-STABLE r261177" back on = 2014-Jan-27 for a Thinkpad T42p. There seem to be a historical list of = reports of this sort of thing going way back. Side note: During the sequence above does find the SSD on "ada0 at ata0 = bus 0 scbus 0 target 0 lun 0" and puts out a correct description of it. = I've not listed those lines. The 11.0 CD does have a difference here. = Just after these ada0 messages it has an additional line: WARNING: Witness option enabled, expect reduced performance. But other than the additional text I could not tell any difference from = deadlock/cycle checking. 2nd Context: PowerMac3,4 733MHz (Early 2001) with one ATA "disk" drive = (a SSD with an adapter), a DVD-ROM drive of the same model as above = (again on the separate ATA bus), and 1.5GBytes of RAM, GeForce4 Ti 4600. Both CDs appear to stop at what appears to be the same point where those = messages started above but no messages are produced, not even for the = SSD on ata0. I've let it sit for 1hr+ and nothing new was displayed. = There was no witness option enabled massage from 11.0 either. Unfortunately I'm going to be away from the PowerMacs for a notable time = so for now I will not being trying burns of older 10.0 or 11.0 .iso's or = 9.3/9.2 ones or other experiments. May be next month. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net
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