From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Aug 21 19:33:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A4E37B420 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:33:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wguynes@mav.net) Received: from leopard (A010-0206.ALBQ.splitrock.net [209.254.238.206]) by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f7M2Wwq222668; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:32:58 -0400 From: William Guynes To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall won't read drive, even though scsi controller is detected Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:25:56 -0500 Organization: DownWithSpam, Inc. Reply-To: wguynes@mav.net Message-ID: <6a26otk39br425aoqeofiv9gt592hbet3h@smtp.prodigy.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm having a problem with sysinstall being able to detect a drive on my Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI controller. The controller appears to be detected using the generic kernel and, after some Visual mode trimming, it works fine. Hardware/Software setup: OS: FreeBSD 4.3 April 2001 CD set SCSI Controller: Adaptec 2940 U/UW Drive: Seagate Barracuda 9GB (ST19171N) CD-Rom: NEC SCSI CD drive Partial Boot output: >ahc0: port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem > 0xdf800000-0xdf800ff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 >aic7880: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=15, 16/255 SCBs Please note that no "sa" device appears in boot output that I can see. The aic7880 worries me a bit, but only because I'm not sure if it should be there with ahc0. After boot sequence. sysinstall begins. I pick Standard Installation. I get the standard fdisk "only do this if God himself gives you permission" warning. And then the error... >No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being >properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the >Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem. Hardware Guide gives nothing much more than a "user's guide" on sysinstall Visual mode syntax plus a long list of supported hardware. I already know that AHA-2940 is supported as "ahc". "sa" appears nowhere in Visual menu. As far as I can tell, the controller itself is being detected, even though it's not one of the listed controllers in Visual selection mode. (I find this odd that it's not there). The only "bogus" listed items in Visual mode are a bunch of incorrect SCSI controllers and a lot of NIC cards I don't have. I just remove all those. ahc still gets detected. Since this is all pre-fdisk, my Debian installation still resides on the drive. And windows was on it long before that. The hardware is fine. Boots. CD and drive both work. Etcetc. Could be SCSI config issue, but would have to be something special that is unique to FreeBSD. I'm at the end of my knowledge rope. Massive Googling revealed little. -- William Guynes Previously posted to freebsd-questions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message