Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:47:59 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Panics & bad reads from 3.3-RELEASE install with aha2940u2w.... Message-ID: <199911162347.SAA04182@lakes.dignus.com>
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Ok - I give up. I've tried this on two machines; one with the ASUS P2B-S you may have seen me talking about; (with the "on board" aha2940u2w (aha bios #2.11)) and another with an ASUS P2B with a real aha2940u2w installed (aha bios #2.01). I'm doing this all on the non-LVD SCSI chain; I've just a wide disk drive with proper termination, and a 50-pin disk with proper termination. I've done it with a SONY CRX140S (a nice new SCSI CD-RW from SONY) and a YAMAHA CRW6416SZ. Both demonstrate the same bug. So - I believe I've eliminated hardware from the scenario - leaving only one thing - a bug in FreeBSD? When I try to install by booting from the CD - the install proceeds up to actually trying to extract the distributions from the CD - at which point you get read errors, with cpio complaining about checksum errors and skipping nnnn bytes of junk. Of course, the files are not extracted. This eventually ends in a `write' error of some kind - although I don't think that's actually what happened. If I disable the CD boot - and instead, boot from the floppies, I get to extracting the distributions and *poof* I get a panic with a page fault - somewhere in CAM I think. So - it would seem to me there is some CAM and aha 2940u2w problem lurking in there... Thoughts? - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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