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Date:      Sun, 07 Apr 1996 10:40:36 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        "Edward J. Sweeney" <ccfi@gate.net>
Cc:        "'stable@freebsd.org'" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BT: UNIT NUMBER (1) TOO HIGH 
Message-ID:  <199604071740.KAA21932@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Apr 1996 13:06:37 EDT." <01BB2483.2DC017A0@jaxfl2-40.gate.net> 

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>I'm running a Pentium 133 on a BT946C with a Connor CFP2107S 2.14GB SCSI =
>HD. =20
>
>The last stable I successfully sup'd and booted was at the beginning of =
>Feb, and the 2.1 distribution worked fine.  The stable branch is now a =
>problem for my machine.
>
>The booting process freezes at "CHANGING ROOT DEVICE TO SDA0".

Please don't use caps when the messages don't have caps in them.  It
only confuses things.

>Watching the messages, the first sign of trouble is: "BT: UNIT NUMBER =
>(1) TOO HIGH".

Actually, that warning is benign.  The real cause of problems is that you
have the ISA compatibility port enabled on your Buslogic and FreeBSD is
attaching to the PCI port address that the card also exports.  I don't
know why you can see the upper address but it doesn't work with these
cards, but that must be what's happening.  Perhaps another probe that
touched the same lower I/O address makes the card think that we're
going to use the low address and it turns off the PCI address.  Anyway,
you can fix it by going into the Buslogic BIOS setup and disabling
the ISA compatibility port address.


Justin T. Gibbs
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