From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 16:10:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02740 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.bayou.com (mail.bayou.com [206.28.99.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02626 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:10:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m_wall@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (max2-p203.Bayou.COM [208.143.112.203]) by mail.bayou.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA19478 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:00:58 GMT Message-ID: <35BD1685.802855FC@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:08:37 -0600 From: "Michael W." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please help me out Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guys, I've been everywhere for help on this, and no one seems to know the answer to my problem. I have an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI board with my 12x Plextor cdrom and Conner tape drive running off of it. When I recieved BSD in the mail, I hurriedly unwrapped it and proceeded to boot it up and do a quick visual pre-install config of the kernel. But when it boots, it takes forever probing each of the scsi id's, and comes up with nothing in each slot. (Each slot except the first, which is my hard drive.) Here's what it gives me as far as the dmesg: ---------------------------------------------- Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 10 on PCI 0:11:0 ahc0: aic 7880 Wide Channel, SCSI id = 7, 16 SCBs ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc 0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST19171W 0023" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0 (ahc 0:0:0): Direct-Access 8683MB ahc0: board is not responding (ahc 0:3:0):SCB 0x0- timedout in datain phase, SCSISIGI = 0x44 SEQADDR = 0x128 SCSIEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x0 SSTAT1 = 0x3 (ahc0 0:3:0): abort message in message buffer ahc0: board is not responding cmd fail (ahc 0:3:0): SCB 0x1 timedout while recovery in progress (ahc 0:3:0): "unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed scsi 0 uk0(ahc 0:3:0): Unknown ahc0: board is not responding (ahc 0:3:1): SCB 0x2 timedout while recovery in progress (ahc 0:3:1): "unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed scsi 0 uk1 (ahc 0:3:0): unknown ahc0: board is not responding cmd fail ------------------------------------------------ It repeats these protests for each of the 16 id's, and consequently I can't install from the cdrom because the boot process doesn't detect it. My termination and cabling are all correct, and there is no other physical problem that I can see because I run NT (and Red Hat Linux 5.0) right now and everything works just fine. If anyone has any ideas as to what might be the cause, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks-- Michael Wallis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message