Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:31:46 +1000 From: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, martint@nexus.edu.au Subject: FreeBSD and Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI card problems with Pheonix BIOS p75 board Message-ID: <v03130307b3b79387e0ac@[1.1.1.1]>
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Hi
I'm having great trouble booting the FreeBSD 3.2 Installer boot floppy,
kern.flp, as when it tries to load the driver for the Adaptec AHA-2940UW
SCSI Host Adaptor it ends up in a very slow loop that never ends:
(probe0:ahc0:0:0:0): scb 0xe - timed out while idle, Lastphase == 0x1,
SEQADDR == 0x18a
(probe1:ahc0:0:1:0): queueing a BDR scb
(probe2:ahc0:0:2:0): queueing a BDR scb
(probe3:ahc0:0:3:0): queueing a BDR scb
(probe4:ahc0:0:4:0): queueing a BDR scb
(This is transcribed from the screen)
I have read other people having problems in the past with this combination
of hardware, in particular with a motherboard with Pheonix BIOS. In my case
it's a Digital Venturis 575 (a 75MHz pentium board).
I have pretty much exactly the same problem with the Redhat Linux 5.1 that
is currently installed on the system. When I try and load the adaptec scsi
kernel module it puts some very similar errors in the message log and only
goes away by rebooting. Needless to say I have never mounted the new
Seagate 4Gb drive that's sitting on the other side of the Adaptec 2940.
Are there any new releases of the driver for this hardware? Do they fix
this problem?
Is it simply that the following three things are incompatable together: ?
FreeBSD
Adaptec 2940
Pheonix BIOS
Might it be something else?
What can I do about the problem? (It seems from other people's experience
that I have to either get a different SCSI card or a different motherboard
or a different OS. I have to say a different OS is probably easier at this
point, eg SUSE Linux 6.x... lets hope this isn't necessary though.
cheers
jesse
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