Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:21:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@wolfnet.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot-time scsi probe problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903160817280.36606-100000@outreach.wolfnet.org> In-Reply-To: <199903160625.XAA23822@panzer.plutotech.com>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > This sounds and looks like a known problem with the Adaptec 7890 chips. A > number of people have reported this. Hmmm... Was this reported to the list, and if so, how long ago? I checked the archives for -scsi and didn't see anything in there on this. > Justin has reproduced the problem (with a lot of help from Tor Egge) and > has a PCI bus trace showing the problem. > > He said that there may be a bug in the 7890 that causes it to hang in > certain circumstances; he has mailed Adaptec asking for information. Joy... I guess those certain circumstances are happening almost all the time for me. > Since he's not in town at the moment, I wouldn't expect any response from > him on this for a few days. > > I suggest that you stick with the kernel that boots for now, if you can. > The hang seems to be timing related in some way, so you might get different > results if you stick your hard disk on the Ultra-Wide bus instead of the > Ultra-2 bus. Hopefully Justin will be able to come up with a fix for it > before too long. Ok. I will give this a try later this evening and see if it helps. I did try to take the drive out of LVD mode and put it in SE mode on the U2W bus, but I didn't try it on the UW bus. Thanx for the idea. > You also may want to subscribe to the -scsi list, there's a lot less noise > on this list than on many of the other FreeBSD lists. (for now, at least) I did this too. Thanx for the help. -- Jason K. Fritcher jkf@wolfnet.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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