From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 9:42:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FFB37BD50 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:42:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22306 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:42:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20366 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:42:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA66810 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:42:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:42:12 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash on boot when disks are present? Message-ID: <20000302184212.A20215@internal> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:45:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 02-Mar-2000 at 12:45:35 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > Folks, > > This one is so weird that I don't have the foggiest clue how I'd > go about searching the archives for answers. Searching for "crash on > boot" netted me way more hits than I care to try to count. I felt similar about two weeks ago... > > I've got a FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE system (cvsup'ed a couple of weeks > ago) that I've been doing some tests with and it has been working > pretty well up until now (after I got the issues of which PCI slots I > can plug SCSI controllers into ;-). > > Anyway, the vendor field engineer for our disk drive array (one > of those expensive mainframe-style refrigerator-size models) came in > this morning to try to fix some problems we're having with it not > recognizing all the RAM that is installed, and among other things he > did a firmware upgrade of the controllers, and while we were at it we Do you have set the geometry to 1023/256/63 on the affected drives? You might want to look into PR# 16803 ... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message