From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 10:19:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6031537B404 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.20.3] ([12.76.32.9]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020322181904.KIRJ38.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@[192.168.20.3]> for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:19:04 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:19:03 -0600 Subject: "ahc0: Someone reset channel A" - new FreeBSD 4.5 Install attempt - Help From: SNF To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have an IBM Intellistation M Pro with dual PII 400 processors (256 MB Ram). It has an onboard Adaptec SCSI controller (AIC-7895 w/ bios 1.31) and I am currently attempting to do a fresh install with the latest install disc of FreeBSD 4.5. I get to a point where the beginning installer is probing the SCSI devices and an error pops up "ahc0: Someone reset channel A" around the time that the screen displays "waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" - the error then ends in an eternal loop. I think we can assume the drive (a 9.1 GB Seagate) is in fine condition because it checks out okay via the SCSI setup/bios check and WinNT 4.0 (SP 6) is running fine on the system. I have no idea where to go from here. I searched the mail archives and also the usenet archives and found nothing that really related to the problem I am having. Any ideas on what is happening? (BTW, the hard drive is the only device attached to the SCSI onboard adapter. The CD-Rom drive is eide and runs off another controller. I have also tried controller A and B for the SCSI drive and get the same results. I have also looked for a bios update for the scsi controller and can't find anything relevant on Adaptec's site.) I would really appreciate any help. SF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message