From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 15:09:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA25138 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from tribe.com (tribe.com [199.35.172.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA25130 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:09:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by tribe.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA12296; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:08:58 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199602262308.PAA12296@tribe.com> Subject: Re: My NCR810 dies on -stable, -current, but not 2.1.0-release To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:08:57 -0800 (PST) Cc: brian@easy1.mediacity.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602261500.AA03698@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Feb 26, 96 04:00:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Feb 26, 0:37, "Brian Litzinger" wrote: > } Subject: My NCR810 dies on -stable, -current, but not 2.1.0-release > } Earlier I reported that my NCR 810 PCI controllers was locking up > } after the 'changing root device to sd0a'. > } > } I happened to wait for about 30 seconds with the system stuck and > } got this message: > } > } changing root device to sd0a > } [about 30 second delay] > } ncr0: aborting job ... > } ncr0:1: ERROR (90:0) (8-0-0) (0/13) @ (c84:50000000). > } script cmd = 740a8700 > } reg: de 00 00 13 47 00 06 1f 35 08 00 00 90 00 0f 02. > } ncr0: restart (fatal error) > } sd0(ncr0:0:0) COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @f0a21800. > } sd0(ncr0:0:0) FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. > } panic: cannot mount root > > No, but I'm surprised you see a difference > between 2.1R and -stable ... In trying to do an installation of 2.1R the other day from a SCSI CD-ROM (TEAC cd-50) to a SCSI disk, a very similar error (visible on virtual terminal #2) prevented the installation from ever getting beyond about 15-20% of the bin distribution (I made several attempts). I tried a different CD-ROM (a generic quad speed) and everything worked. The original double speed cd-rom is a lot older and probably just sucks in general. The door gets jammed sometimes too. I think I'm going to throw it away. I don't have the exact screen output, but it looked very similar and I definately remember the "ncr0: restart (fatal error)" line. The motherboard is an ASUS SP3-G motherboard (with a rev 2 ncr chip). Sorry I don't have more details right now, but FWIW... -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com