Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:58:17 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: george+freebsd@m5p.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542CF boot problem in 5.3 Message-ID: <41BA2A09.30407@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200412102238.iBAMc7ZJ000238@m5p.com> References: <200412102238.iBAMc7ZJ000238@m5p.com>
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george+freebsd@m5p.com wrote: > Starting in at least Beta-6 and Beta-7 of FreeBSD 5.3, and in 5.3-RELEASE, > FreeBSD dies after the 15-second SCSI settling timeout with an Adaptec > AHA-1542CF. This board worked in 5.2.1, 5.2, and up through 4.7. Has > anyone seen this board work with 5.3? -- George Mitchell > There is a known problem with ISA DMA in 5.3. As a work-around, boot the CD and hit '6' to break to the loader command prompt. Then type: set vm.old_contigmalloc=1 boot I believe that I have this fixed correctly in 5.3-STABLE/RELENG_5. If the work-around works for you then try updating your sources and see if it works without the above work-around. Scott
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