From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 07:37:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04331 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA04318 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa25689; 5 Feb 98 10:36 EST Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.67.12]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12763; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:36:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10407; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:36:46 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:36:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Doug White cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: problems with aha-1520b In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > I am installing a new aha-1520b for a friend, and it is acting up. > > The aic driver correctly probes and identifies the card and then correctly > > identifies the attached device. I have tried both a fujitsu disk and an > > exebyte 8200 configured for id 6, and in both cases the device is > > activated by the driver, i.e. the activitiy light comes on, but it never > > completes a single I/O operation. Eventually it times out with messages > > like the following: > > > > Feb 3 01:09:40 sol /kernel: sd0(aic0:6:0): timed out > > Feb 2 23:47:46 sol /kernel: st0(aic0:6:0): timed out > > > > Are there any known problems with the aic driver and this card? > > Check the card's interrupt and make sure it isn't using an IRQ used by > another device. > > Also check your termination. Thanks for the suggestion. It turned out the card was DOA. Once I swapped it out with another one, everything worked just fine. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/