From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 22:56:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D5816A407 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gvanlehn@ccsf.edu) Received: from ns7.ccsf.cc.ca.us (ns7.ccsf.cc.ca.us [147.144.1.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1789443D49 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:56:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gvanlehn@ccsf.edu) Received: from bat-gwpo.ccsf.edu ([10.2.0.249]) by ns7.ccsf.cc.ca.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9PMuGnK018112 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:56:16 -0700 Received: from sfccd-MTA by bat-gwpo.ccsf.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:06:19 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.4 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:06:01 -0700 From: "Glen Van Lehn" To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Install 5.4 CD, Adaptec 2120S, aac0: Command Timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:56:17 -0000 Hi, I'm new to the list, but have been using BSD for five+ years. I tried installing 5-STABLE from the 5.4CDs onto a new HP DL140 G2 with an = Adaptec 2120S RAID controller that someone else had already installed with = a Linux OS. Two HDD are config'd as RAID1 set. After the probes for VGA & = mouse, the boot stuck on a repeated series of messages: aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef000 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS # 16 diff hex offsets per set .. each set repeating every 20 seconds aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef708 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS A different boot has a different hex prefix, 0xc3a16, but the same = sequence of 16 trailing digits, 000 to 708. Searching this list, I found a similar post from Chris Knight in January, = but he was on 6 and that was apparently right at a change to the aac = driver. Searching FreeBSD.org turned up a similar problem back in March = 2004 [5.2.1]. Scott Long responded to that one as a known issue being = resolved. The BIOS firmware was 'Build 7244' from May 2004, but I updated = that to Build 8205 [latest for that chipset] and still had the same = problem. Would the pre-existing different OS install mess up the aac0 driver? like = format the array first? I broke the array, re-inited the disks and recreated RAID 1.. but didn't = format drives .. still had problem. something else? I was able to install Fedora4 after failing on 5.4, but = I'd like to use FreeBSD for this project. comments appreciated. glen van lehn