Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:02:02 -0600 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: Rune Mossige <r.mossige@sensewave.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS A7V and promise problems Message-ID: <3A51ED6A.6060501@planetwe.com> References: <000701c074cb$2f912b80$c7a47dd4@kleppst.no>
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I'm going to take a shot at this, because I have one of these boards, and had some problems with it at first as well. Is the box actually booting all the way up and giving you a login prompt, or is it freezing during the bootup? If its freezing during the boot, give it a minute - maybe 2 minutes. If it doesn't come around and start working, try disabling the parallel port in the bios and rebooting. If this works, you're going to need to find out what is trying to use the IRQ of the parallel port and assign it a different IRQ, then you can re-enable the parallel port and you should be able to boot fine. There should (or rather will) be a pause during the boot because of some minor problems that I don't fully understand, and the pause should happen about the time the drives are detected. The board (and the drives) will work, (or at least my setup does; though I only have one DTLA-30745) and quite well with the exception of the pause during bootup. Hope this helps. Rune Mossige wrote: > I just bought myself a Christmas present, a new ASUS A7V, Amd Athlon 750, > onboard Promise, and 2 x IBM-DTLA-30745 45GB ATA100 disks. > > In order to install FreeBSD 4.2, I also installed an older 540MB IDE disk. > > FreeBSD 4.2 was CVSUP'ed and buildworld/installworld done on 31. December > 2000. > > FreeBSD boots fine, and finds the promise and disks. But, whenever try to > access the disks, the box freeze solid after 2-4 seconds....a hard reset is > required. > > New BIOS are also installed (1005a) with no luck. I have also reduced all > relevant speed settings in the bios, with no luck. > > The disks are connected with brand new ATA100 cables. > > There is a working fan on the CPU, and I do not think it is too hot. The > BIOS reports MB at 33C and CPU at 41C. Both disks are primary on their own > Promise channel. > > Is there anyone who have some hints as to what might be wrong? I have > rebuilt the kernel (GENERIC) and enabled debug. Everything else is left as > defaults. But, there is no core, no debug, nothing. Just solid freeze. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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