From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 16:39:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B9F16A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:39:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F32943D45 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:39:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 57so1181133wri for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:39:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ppptGIGSuhL/qrnNCPpHQcTpbzeOkKWO/nVVfUmmioJ80AgHsJbnteqffOKYjXkMHuDyE8/G5DBIFPivRdgqGt/qfSXLsT/oQLCG5cSdAX4bz98dDHj6pomX6fu+/Oe7w8U1vMUgbjtyRf16Czpwe/qEG3WgYd1Y+78DO777QmI= Received: by 10.65.196.16 with SMTP id y16mr2709334qbp; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.155.12 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:39:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7579f7fb0603060839mf583822y8c7afa8aee1d4ff8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:39:49 -0800 From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "Andrew MacLeod" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot hangs on mpt0: failing to detect tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:39:51 -0000 Lot's of problems here.... When you say "had no luck with BIOS"- that means you can see it no problem in the LSI Config utility? First- is the tape drive powered on? Also- try this experiment: boot w/o the tape hooked up. If all is well, connect the tape and do, as root, 'camcontrol rescan all'. On 3/5/06, Andrew MacLeod wrote: > Currently trying to install freebsd on a new ACER Altos R710 server. > Having problems on bootup where it seems not able to detect the Internal > Sony AIT-2 Turbo tape drive. System hangs at mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] for > five minutes then several messages like the following: > > mpt0: Soft Reset Failed: ack timeout > mpt0: WARNING - Failed Hard Reset > mpt0: failed to reset device > mpt0: soft reset failed: device not running. > IOcmpt: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 adapter..... > > When I disconnect the tape drive from the SCSI card system boots fine. > I am running Freebsd 6.0-Release with a slightly modified GENERIC Kernel > to enable SMP and PF. > I am not a hardward expert but I will try to explain the setup of the > system as best I can. The server is a dual xeon with 5x73GB SCSI hard > discs which we have setup in a combination of RAID 1 for the operating > system and RAID 5 for the data. These run on an LSILogic 2 channel SCSI > card. The system has an identical 2nd LSILogic SCSI card which the > vendor assured us was needed to run the Tape Drive. However the > Motherboard also has onboard SCSI support and the tape drive is > connected to this. The tape drive has a terminator attached. We have > attempted to attach the tape drive to both the secondary channel on the > primary SCSI card and both channels on the secondary one and the system > hangs on SCSI initialisation prior to reaching freebsd. We have had no > luck altering settings in the LSILogic configuration utility or in the > system BIOS. > > Any assistance would be much appreciated as my next step is to try an > alternate O/S to see if this is hardware or system related. > > Kind Regards > Andrew > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Andrew Macleod > Technical Manager > Centre for Electronic Commerce and Communications > University of Ballarat > Registered Provider Number 00103D > > Suite 12A Greenhill Enterprise Centre > University Drv Mt Helen 3350 > Tel: +61 3 5327 9315 > Email: a.macleod@ballarat.edu.au > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >