From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 4 16:01:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385A416A420 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8044A43D45 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:01:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k24G1TEi055754; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:01:29 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060304095814.027bad10@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:01:19 -0600 To: David LeCount , Rod Person , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20060304154943.65923.qmail@web53705.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200603040841.31020.rodperson@adelphia.net> <20060304154943.65923.qmail@web53705.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:01:56 -0000 If the SCSI is enabled you should get a boot message and be able to go into the SCSI configuration. All SCSI controllers will list the devices found on boot, so if you aren't seeing any devices you don't have it working right. Check the BIOS again and check your cabling, and termination. -Derek At 09:49 AM 3/4/2006, David LeCount wrote: >Okay, now we're getting somewhere (maybe). Looking in >the CMOS for firewire, I finally found the SCSI >controller setting. I never would have guessed it >would be under PCI configuration. Anyway, I enabled >that, and I disabled firewire, both ethernet ports (I >use wireless anyway), and both SATA channels. I'll >have to enable one of the SATA channels later since I >have a new SATA drive, but for now I want to keep it >as simple as possible. Also, I have the mpt device >built into my kernel, along with scbus and da. Still, >FreeBSD does not list a da device, dmesg doesn't show >anything about mpt, and there is no information >displayed on boot about SCSI drives. It's as if the >SCSI controller is still disabled, even though I >enabled it and saved settings. (I went back into CMOS >to verify it was still enabled.) Know any other >settings that could be disabling it? Thanks. > >--- Rod Person wrote: > > > On Friday 03 March 2006 9:58 pm, David LeCount > > wrote: > > > I recently purchased a Tyan S2895 motherboard and > > more > > > recently a Hitachi SCSI drive. I'm trying like > > hell to > > > > I just got my new workstation 2 days ago with the > > Tyan S2895 > > motherboard. Mine is the K8WE with the LSI 1030 U320 > > SCSI adapter built in. > > To get this to boot 6.0 I had to do the following. > > > > In the BIOS: > > > > 1. Disable the SLAVE MAC(NIC). Advanced->Integrated > > Devices->Slave Devices > > Menu. > > > > 2. Disable IEEE 1394(firewire). Advanced->PCI > > Configuration->Integrated 1394 > > Menu. > > > > With my drive, which was a pull from my old > > workstation, I had kernel built > > that did not have the mpt drive for the LSI adapter > > so during boot I choose > > option 6 and the issused the command: > > > > load mpt > > boot > > > > Then all booted fine. > > > > Although you disable the slave nic (my board has 2 > > nics) the primary still > > work as long as you load the if_nve kernel module. > > > > HTH > > -- > > Rod Person > > > > http://www.opensourcebeef.net > > http://blog.opensourcebeef.net > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"