From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jul 29 6:58:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BF837B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hauptpostamt.charite.de (hauptpostamt.charite.de [193.175.66.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349AD43E31 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexander.haderer@charite.de) Received: from postamt1.charite.de (postamt1.charite.de [193.175.66.246]) by hauptpostamt.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FD215C02C for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:58:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from chaplin.charite.de (chaplin.str.charite.de [192.168.202.88]) by postamt1.charite.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D6F633B3 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:58:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.1.20020729142658.029cec88@postamt1.charite.de> X-Sender: afrika@postamt1.charite.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:58:28 +0200 To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alexander Haderer Subject: What does these scsi kernel messages mean? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, We have a very strange SCSI problem running a Tekram dc3902ub (see http://www.tekram.com/hot_products.asp?Product=DC-390U2_Series ) with a Soyo P4Y Fire Dragon Mainboard (see http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=3 ). The board is used for a file server: 8 large IDE disks connected to the onboard IDE channels realize the storage, the OS (FreeBSD 4.6 Release) is booted from SCSI Disk via PCI card Tekram (Symbios 895) controller. The SCSI disk is the only device on the SCSI bus. As soon as we access the SCSI disk we get SCSI errors we don't understand. What these messages make so strange: 1. If you move the Tekram, SCSI cable, SCSI disk, terminator "en bloc" to a different board (Asus P3B for example), the SCSI system works without problem. 2. We have exchanged really any component at the Soyo System (cable, power, cpu, board, RAM, ...) without any effect. 3. If we exchange the SCSI system at the Soyo system an put in a LSI logic Symbios 875 card with a Quantum 1GB Fireball insead we also get messages like shown below. 4. If we install a Generic Kernel with option options SYM_SETUP_PCI_PARITY=0 we still get error messages when accessing the SCSI disk 5. We have one system up and running with Soyo Fire Dragon and Tekram DC390u2b which works 24x7 for weeks without any problem with the SCSI components. 6. We are also unable to install other OS to SCSI disk. All installers (Win2K, Suse Linux 8.0, FreeBSD 4.5R, FreeBSD 4.6R) sooner or later fail with strange errors. FreeBSD gives the most detailed error messages of all of them. 7. Both BIOS's are up to date: Soyo: 2aa2, Symbios: 3.23 We are in contact with Soyo support team and want to give them a hint about what we think is going wrong. For us it looks like a problem between Soyo P4i Fire Dragon and Symbios based SCSI controllers. The SCSI error messages we get are not very "self explanatory" so I ask this list in the hope of an answer. If someone can help, please see my question in this context: What does the messages below mean for the motherboard, if I know _this_ Tekram controller, _this_ SCSI cable, _this_ terminator, and _this_ harddisk work in other mainboards without problems. What can I tell the Soyo support team? Syslog messages: Note: These messages are from a 4.5R network boot via xl0. This was done to fetch the messages elecronically and not manually (We are unable to boot from SCSI disk!). The DISKLESS_45 is a generic 4.5R kernel with additions for network boot. The scsi errors at the end are very similar for a 4.6R floppy/CDROM boot. ---------------------------- snip --------------------------- Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Thu Mar 21 16:30:26 CET 2002 root@marvin08.str.charite.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/DISKLESS_45 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium 4 (1793.36-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febfbff,ACC> real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes) avail memory = 256446464 (250436K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0498000. md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 13 entries at 0xc00fde90 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at 0.0 irq 12 pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 sym0: <895> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xe9008000-0xe9008fff,0xe9004000-0xe90040ff irq 15 at device 2.0 on pci2 sym0: Tekram NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa400-0xa47f mem 0xe9005000-0xe900507f irq 10 at device 3.0 on pci2 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:f1:d3:05 miibus0: on xl0 xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: port 0xc000-0xc03f mem 0xe9006000-0xe9006fff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci2 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:50:2c:03:03:3a inphy0: on miibus1 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 14 orm0: