Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 17:41:12 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: ddw@NSMA.Arizona.EDU Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with 36GB SCSI drives... Message-ID: <200005090041.RAA16675@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 17:29:20 PDT." <200005090029.RAA19432@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU>
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> Previously: > >Cabling or termination. Probably the latter, given that you're using > >both internal and external connectors, but it's also possible that you're > >using cabling that's just not up to LVD snuff. > > I'll check into this some more. I'm going to try putting a couple disks > on the internal bus to see if that changes anything... Er, don't just wave dead chickens around. Examine your actual configuration and *check* it. > >> int=00000000 err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00001b54 > >> eax=00000000 ebx=00000386 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > >> esi=00009ebd edi=00001a3e ebp=0000038e esp=00000382 > >> cs=d000 ds=0040 es=9ebd fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9ebd > >> cs:eip=f7 f1 33 d2 8a 4e f6 f7-f1 3d ff 03 76 03 b8 ff > >> ss:esp=00 00 3f 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 02 00 df 09 00 d0 > >> system halted > > > >When exactly do you get this message? It's typically indicative of your > >system being royally screwed (this is inside the Adaptec BIOS, by the > >looks of it). > > This is at the point where FreeBSD should be taking over. The POST has > completed, the Adaptec adapters have done their thing, the screen has > cleared and I've seen a list of all the PCI devices. Then this thing > happens. When I try to boot from the CD, there is actually a message > about booting from the CD, then wham-o, this message pops up. I forgot to ask about the CDROM; is this an IDE or SCSI CDROM? If the latter, how is it connected? Is this a "new" 2940 with a separate LVD and non-LVD bus? If so, are all the disks on the LVD bus? At any rate, the trap you're getting above comes from BTX, and the offending code is somewhere in the BIOS; probably on a plug-in card. > If it's the wrong thing, I'm definitely open to learning what the right > thing is, 'cause it takes 35 minutes for the format. (I'm only messing > with one disk at a time now - the first time I ran through this, I had to > format all of them to get the system to boot...) :-( Boot on a system that doesn't have a broken BIOS and write zeroes over the first part of the disk. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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