From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 14:48:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B011216A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:48:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605E243D45 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:48:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 9239 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2006 14:48:06 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Feb 2006 14:48:05 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4B5F028421; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:48:05 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Chris Knight References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Feb 2006 09:48:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44hd7jjftm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell CERC (aac driver) issue after upgrade to 6-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:48:06 -0000 Chris Knight writes: > I just purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1800 to replace my mail server. It > has two 3.2 Xeon processors, 2G of ECC memory, and a Dell CERC SATA > RAID controller with two 160G Maxtor drives in a RAID 1 mirror. The > Dell CERC appears to be an Adaptec RAID controller, and it is detected > by the aac driver. > > I donwloaded the ISO for FreeBSD 6.0 i386 and installed it tonight. > So far, so good. > > I rebuilt the RELEASE kernel with SMP options. So far, so good. > > I synced to 6-STABLE, made world, recompiled the SMP kernel. > > Now when I reboot I get to the detection of the RAID controller and my > screen is scrolling with the following errors: > > aac0: COMMAND 0xc6588000 TIMEOUT AFTER 559 SECONDS > aac0: COMMAND 0xc6588000 TIMEOUT AFTER 579 SECONDS > aac0: COMMAND 0xc6588000 TIMEOUT AFTER 599 SECONDS > > Has anyone else encountered this problem? What do I need to do to fix it? > > -Chris > > ps. Manually loading kernel.old at boot works, so I assume it is some > bit of new driver foo. Well, the aac driver just (Monday) got its first changes in RELENG_6 since the 6.0 release. Some of those changes do involve keeping track of timeouts. To help solve the problems, talking to Scott Long (scottl) would be the way to go. [To get past the problems right now, just back your sources out to any time before Mon Jan 30 17:56:06 2006 UTC.]