From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 17:52:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77895106566B for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dewey.hylton@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F40F8FC08 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dewey.hylton@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so869709rvf.43 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:52:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=5gcyzCVFogMzjzztz7xhLs/KdoB/NBSzM7v+ZRYsOp8=; b=PoxsgTFmzholyFkuto1rTl9hVoLWzIqbC/fgKBgEuNScqQ6k0MjenDb2dyrpyP8USJ jpZUwRVQmOG0Av9zsqjB1xtpxnWFGIMiYlW7SDS+QkcEd5d1KDQ5xZzdb70rQuisyRlG usNE+sJ4ZWhTsdJTjQTonDMbek/7RsJCGBBO4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Yyw6rm6KClWV3iO+Lgr+KZbGOg0QBQSplyDnLDQ7RMJf55x+a4S2qyPUlpCrVEGrTx M72xtcqfrzhp+9LTuS5AW2IKEco870OxXLRoAWdF6NAj0Dmnhl/wSa0QgN5YPiD2zQWL jh0JIJRo77ykHIAsu+iA9j3ojuFBNXCvLjeOA= Received: by 10.141.87.13 with SMTP id p13mr5422143rvl.43.1217525276584; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.178.11 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3eec4c0d0807311027k66363ac5m17f600cb75d72f99@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:27:56 -0400 From: "Dewey Hylton" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: boot failure with twa device X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:52:27 -0000 anyone up to the task of helping me solve a freebsd boot problem? hardware: core2quad, 8gb ram, x16 pcie video, x16 pcie raid (3ware 9650se) motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI / bios 1101 (20080707) amd64 bootcd: hangs when attempting to init raid (timeouts, bus resets) i386 bootcd: same as amd64 EXCEPT works with APIC disabled. results seem to be the same on 7.0-RELEASE, 7.0-STABLE-0807, and 8.0-CURRENT i don't believe it's pcie contention because replacing the video with pci yields same results and because this machine runs flawlessly, 64bit with APIC, with linux. can something possibly done, say hint.twa.0.xyz='foobar', to init the raid card as linux does? where do i start? bios for both raid and motherboard are up-to-date, but the symptoms were the same before and after updating both. thanks in advance; this one has me stumped and i haven't had luck with the lurkers in irc either.