From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 15 6:59:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlins.force9.net (merlins0.plus.net.uk [195.166.128.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2CB014C58 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 4096 invoked from network); 15 Nov 1999 14:59:01 -0000 Received: from mayfly.plus.net.uk (HELO mayfly.force9.net) (195.166.128.28) by merlins0.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 15 Nov 1999 14:59:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 13494 invoked from network); 15 Nov 1999 14:59:00 -0000 Received: from a137-07-02.dial.plus.net.uk (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (195.166.140.137) by mayfly.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 15 Nov 1999 14:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: <38301F8D.9F80E1BF@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:58:21 +0000 From: Richard Morte X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: [Fwd: Panic with Advansys ASC3050 SCSI Controller] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think this is proving to be a subject that perhaps no-one is able to help me with. I've tried posting this question before, leaving a decent interval between postings, so I have given it a good innings. This will be my last shot with this one. If the only solution is to pull the card, can anyone recommend a suitable SCSI card to replace it with? The card is used only to drive a SCSI DAT tape for backups (Standard 50 pin D-type SCSI connector) so speed is not important. Ric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have a 2nd FreeBSD box that I use for testing configurations before applying them to the main server. The FreeBSD installation is the 2nd (dedicated) disk; disk 1 is Windows 98. I have just installed an "Iwill 2930C SCSI Adapter" which seems to be a clone of the Advansys ASC3050 SCSI card. On boot up I now get configuration errors and a panic, followed by reboot. The BIOS reports the following at boot-up: Onboard USB Controller Slot 1 Ethernet, IRQ11 Slot 2 SCSI, IRQ10 Onboard IDE, IRQ 14,15 AGP VGA, IRQ11 I have tried the following: Reinstalled FreeBSD 3.2 in the 2nd drive (there's nothing of importance on the drive, just the result of previous hacks...), but similar error messages occur. Here they are: adv0: rev 0x03 on int a IRQ10 on pci0.9.0 adv0: Warning EEPROM checksum mismatch. Using default device parameters adv0: WARNING! Failure writing to EEPROM. adv0: Advansys Ultra SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, queue depth 240 ... adv0 not found at 0x330 (this appears only if adv0 is NOT deselected in visual config) Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle down... panic adv_qdone: completed scsiq with unknown status Syncing disks... Reboot....... etc Irrespective of whether adv0 is deselected in the visual config, I cannot get the reinstall to work. It seems the GENERIC kernel is configured with both adv0 and adw0 by default. The only thing I've spotted is that FreeBSD uses a different IRQ to that reported by the BIOS; the visual config screen does not allow me to change IRQs nor Port addresses for this device, just the flags. I have checked through the mailing archives, but didn't find much except that the Advansys cards have only more recently been supported (not so, apparently in 1997). There was one mailing with a mention about CAM devices (whatever these are) and some references to CAM devices in the release notes to 3.2 - but in the section indicating that the Advansys cards seem to be supported. Anyone know what the problem is and how to get it configured? Many thanks for your help. Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message