From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 16:53:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.112.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AB837B404 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [80.225.20.49] (helo=jmdoliv) by mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16yLhn-000Gum-00; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:52:47 +0100 From: jmdupoux@lineone.net To: weeguan@hem.passagen.se Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:52:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: re: Adaptec 3940UWD -- No BIOS banner at Boot Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3CBF6A69.17.174BEAC@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 Hello Wee Guan, This might be a long shot, but since the card does seem to be working normally then its BIOS was probably just disabled in the config when it was used before (did u get the card 2nd-hand or out of a Macintosh machine ?) - but an easy way to fix it could be to re-flash the card's BIOS (not your MB bios) - I'm pretty sure AIC-7880 series are flashable, and you will just need a quick visit to Adaptec's site and a 5 minute boot into DOS to see if it works Jean-Mark Dupoux jmdupoux_@_lineone.net --------- Original message ---------- Hello all, I have just put a Adaptec 3940UWD (AIC-7880 based) into my PIII- 550 running on an ASUS P3BF mainboard. The card works fine in FreeBSD and Windows once the OS has taken control, but on the machines I have tried it on, there is no Adaptec BIO banner at the boot time, and as a result, the system cannot be booted via this card. I have tried everything from flashing up my M/B BIOS to trying every option in the BIOS config. I understand that this is not really FreeBSD related, as the problem occurs before it even starts, but I'm grasping at straws here... ;) Many thanks in advance. The dmesg are appended below: host> dmesg | grep ahc ahc0: port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xd3800000-0xd380 0fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2 ahc1: port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xd3000000-0xd300 0fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2 da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 host> dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5- STABLE #0: Sat Apr 13 18:57:32 SGT 2002 weeguan@host.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOST Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (551.25- MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff real memory = 1073725440 (1048560K bytes) avail memory = 1041301504 (1016896K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03c2000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00f0e80 apm0: on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xe4000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 isab0: at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: at 4.1 pci0: at 4.2 chip0: port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1229) at 9.0 irq 14 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1229) at 10.0 irq 15 dpt0: port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 dpt0: DPT PM2044UW FW Rev. 07H1, 1 channel, 64 CCBs pcib2: at device 12.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 ahc0: port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xd3800000-0xd3800fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xd3000000-0xd3000fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs orm0: