Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:06:01 -0700 From: "Glen Van Lehn" <gvanlehn@ccsf.edu> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Install 5.4 CD, Adaptec 2120S, aac0: Command <hex> Timeouts Message-ID: <s53f8b7b.021@bat-gwpo.ccsf.edu>
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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
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