Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:01:51 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1 Install trouble -- can't see SCSI CD-ROM Message-ID: <14091.33135.748460.555669@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <199904062048.OAA30560@panzer.plutotech.com> References: <14090.22748.13910.72739@hip186.ch.intel.com> <199904062048.OAA30560@panzer.plutotech.com>
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[ On Tuesday, April 6, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ] > > [ snip of my tales of fear and loathing regarding CD-ROMs and 3.1 ] > > Well, there have been problems with machines with 7890s hanging on boot. > Justin commited a work-around for the problem on March 22nd/23rd. > > It might be a good idea to try out one of the snapshots from March 24th or > later here: > > ftp://releng3.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386 > > Either a -current or -stable snapshot will work, although, you'll probably > want a stable snapshot. [ copying to -questions to see if other individuals have had similar problems with 3.1 and CD-ROM drives ] Thanks for the reply Kenneth! I downloaded the kern and mfsroot floppies for the snapshot of 3.1-stable for 4/6/1999. Made them into disks, popped them into the new machine and BZZZZZZT ... 3.1 still doesn't see the CD-ROM(s) that were connected. I then thought, "maybe it's an adaptec problem" since somebody else told me they had to update the bios on their 2490UW card (I have the onboard 7890 but I figured "what the heck"). So I (temporarily) took the 50-pin bus, unplugged it from the motherboard and plugged it into the other scsi card which will eventually hook up to my scanner (DC-310 from Tekram ... has the 53C810 symbios chip and is found quite easily during boot of 3.1). Plopped the stock 3.1 boot disks into the machine and BZZZT ... 3.1 still would not see the CD-ROM drives connected via ncr0 (these drives were found during POST of the machine, termination is correct, and I was able to see the two CD-ROM drives on this controller in NT when I rebooted ... so I don't think it's hardware). So, what's going on here? Is there some sort of "debug" sysinstall that I can get from somebody that would print more information about what 3.1 is doing/found when it says it can't find any CD-ROM resources? I'd be willing to download, try, report, etc. if it exists. I have not tried a -current snapshot boot disk (I wasn't intending on running current on this machine though). Would the "easiest" thing be to just go ahead and install 3.0 and then try to figure out where 3.1 sources are causing this blip? I tried scouring the archives for problems of this nature related to 3.1 and couldn't find squat. Has anybody else experienced problems with 3.1 and trying to find CD-ROM drives? It doesn't *appear* to be adaptec-related since it couldn't find them even hung off of ncr0 and the DC-310. thanks for all replies, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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