From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 3:40:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fisher.vip.uk.com (fisher.vip.uk.com [194.176.218.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA3037B401 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@robhulme.com) Received: from modem-22-64-60-62.vip.uk.com ([62.60.64.22] helo=ziggy) by fisher.vip.uk.com with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15FZDN-0006JC-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:40:01 +0100 From: "Rob Hulme" To: Subject: 4.1 install failing on a PowerEdge 1550 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:38:09 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I would be really greatful for any help - I have to install FreeBSD onto a Dell PowerEdge 1550 we just bought to be an internet server. I'm using FreeBSD 4.1 from the CDs I got with 'The Complete FreeBSD (2nd Edition)'. During install either when writing files to the SCSI drive, or (just now) 'Making slice entries for da0s1' it craps out and stops... If I 'Alt-F2' I get one of these error messages: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): SCB 0x4a - timed out while idle, SEQADDR == 0x9 (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Queing a BDR SCB (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Bus Device Reset Message Sent (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b ahc0: Bus Device Reset on A:0. 63 SCBs aborted ahc0:A:0: ahc_intr = referenced scb not valid during seqint 0x71 scb(57) ahc0: WARNING no command for scb 57(cmdcmplt) QOUTPOS = 95 That repeats every 20 seconds or so indefinately. I've tried installing it several times, trying to do a minimal or maximal install - I've updated the BIOS, and firmware with updates from Dell's site - and yet it still doesn't work :0| Has anyone got any suggestions? -Rob -------------------------------- http://www.robhulme.com http://www.christianunion.org.uk "May the forks be with us." - Blue Raja (Mystery Men) Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. ---- R. Buckminster Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message