Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:06:40 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Gérard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sym SCSI card problems during settle wait Message-ID: <200012062207.LAA20805@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012062130460.282-100000@linux.local> References: <200012062022.JAA18516@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On 6 Dec 2000, at 21:45, G=E9rard Roudier wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > > On 6 Dec 2000, at 20:14, G=E9rard Roudier wrote: > > > > > You must check that JP1/JP2 are configured for PCI INTA, which is no= rmally > > > the default setting. > > > > I checked it. It's set to INTA. Thanks. Could there be a correspond= ing > > item in the BIOS? > > Probably not. This is just glue external to the chip. > > The fact that the boot went up to the "wait for SCSI devices to settle..= ." > kernel message means that the driver succeeded chip initialization and d= id > run successfully some simple SCSI scripts to check DMA was working. But > the driver does not check if interrupts are happening properly. That was > the reason I suspected the PCI INT pin setting. > > I donnot see any other obvious reason that may explain the hang-up. You > can try a 'boot -v' (verbose) and see if additionnal messages are printe= d > to the console. You may also remove devices from the SCSI BUS and see if > it makes differences, for example, etc... I don't know if you saw or not, but 3.5.1-RELEASE disks got me to the installation screen. Does that help? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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