From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 18:38:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12898 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:38:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12884 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:37:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA16274; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:07:53 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id NAA79675; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:07:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:07:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI drive time out Message-ID: <19990206130751.M79100@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990206125456.L79100@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:45:41PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 February 1999 at 20:45:41 -0600, Chris wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 5 February 1999 at 20:29:05 -0600, Chris wrote: >>> hello all. >>> >>> >>> in tring to install a hand me down drive from an old dell server from days >>> gone by im running into some problems. the drive is a 4 gig Seagate >>> ST-15150N SCSI-2 Fast (Barracuda 4). The drive came out of a FBSD server >>> running 2.2.5 so i know the drive works. when the box is booting it will >>> find and reconise the drive. the problem comes when 1. i try and fireup >>> sysinstall for repartion the drive, after probing from devise it will >>> finally spit out the following >>> >>> outcast /kernel: sd0(aic0:5:0): timed out >>> >>> 2. this same error is probuced when i try and mount it manually. >>> >>> I was wondering, if this is coused by a termination problem? or maybe a >>> SCSI conflict? >> >> Probably termination. What does your dmesg say? >> >>> the only other SCSI device in the box is the SCSI card >>> itself and it is running on IRQ11. I've check seagates site for other >>> jumper settings but was having a hell of a time tring to figger out the >>> setting from what they provided. If anyone has experance with these drives >>> or any thoughts on the error, please contact me >> >> It's unlikely to be the drive. Let's see the dmesg first. > > as requested. > > Feb 5 15:46:22 outcast /kernel: aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 11 on isa > Feb 5 15:46:22 outcast /kernel: aic0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > Feb 5 15:46:22 outcast /kernel: (aic0:5:0): "SEAGATE ST15150N 0022" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > Feb 5 15:46:22 outcast /kernel: sd0(aic0:5:0): Direct-Access 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors) Looks OK so far. Where are the terminators installed? Can you run disklabel -r and fdisk against it? For example, # disklabel -r sd0 # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: sd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 55 tracks/cylinder: 26 sectors/cylinder: 1430 cylinders: 2955 sectors/unit: 4226725 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 81920 344064 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 240*- 297*) b: 262144 81920 swap # (Cyl. 57*- 240*) c: 4226725 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2955*) e: 81920 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 57*) f: 1900000 425984 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 297*- 1626*) g: 1900741 2325984 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 1626*- 2955*) # fdisk sd0 ******* Working on device /dev/rsd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7044 heads=20 sectors/track=30 (600 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=7044 heads=20 sectors/track=30 (600 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 4226725 (2063 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 30/ head 19 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message