Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:48:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: ddw@NSMA.Arizona.EDU Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with 36GB SCSI drives... Message-ID: <200005082248.PAA16259@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 12:50:35 PDT." <200005081950.MAA16581@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU>
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One list is probably enough. > I have a PC (550 MHZ P-III, Asus P3B-F, 256 MB) with two Adaptec 2940U2W > boards with six IBM DMVS36V 36GB drives. I also have a four gig internal > SCSI drive attached to the first 2940U2W to boot from. The goal is to use > vinum and create a RAID5 system... > > OK, I have installed FreeBSD 4.0 from the CD that I was shipped. I then > try to use disklabel to put a label onto the first 36GB drive, like so: > > disklabel -Brw da1 auto > > but the SCSI bus times out and then I'm hosed. > > I get the following messages: > > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) SCB 0x0c - timed out in Data-out phase, SSEQADDR == 0x5d > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) BDR message in message buffer > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) SCB 0x0c - timed out in Data-out phase, SSEQADDR == 0x5e > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) BDR message in message buffer > (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) no longer in timeout, status = 34b > ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 4 SCBs aborted Cabling or termination. Probably the latter, given that you're using both internal and external connectors, but it's also possible that you're using cabling that's just not up to LVD snuff. > If I try to reboot the computer at this (or any other) point, it freezes with > the following message: > > int=00000000 err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00001b54 > eax=00000000 ebx=00000386 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=00009ebd edi=00001a3e ebp=0000038e esp=00000382 > cs=d000 ds=0040 es=9ebd fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9ebd > cs:eip=f7 f1 33 d2 8a 4e f6 f7-f1 3d ff 03 76 03 b8 ff > ss:esp=00 00 3f 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 02 00 df 09 00 d0 > system halted When exactly do you get this message? It's typically indicative of your system being royally screwed (this is inside the Adaptec BIOS, by the looks of it). > to boot from a 3.4 CD. At this point, the only way I can do anything is to > reboot, hit ctrl-A to get into the Adaptec diagnostics and reformat the 36 GB > hard disk at that level. Then I can reboot and FreeBSD starts right up from > the internal hard disk where it was originally installed. You could probably just power-cycle the machine as well (depends on the actual nature of the problem, might have to do with the Adaptec BIOS trying to be smart). Formatting the disk is *definitely* the wrong thing to do. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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