From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 5 8:44:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DFC151C1 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely7.cicely.de) Received: from cicely7.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA17085; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:43:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely7.cicely.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA86182; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:43:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:43:44 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: stephw@xs4all.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangs on external disks Message-ID: <19990305174344.A85423@cicely7.cicely.de> References: <19990305163123.E20535@xs3.xs4all.nl> <22812.920649755@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <22812.920649755@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 05:02:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 05:02:35PM +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > We now got 3 boxes converted from bsdi to freebsd 3.1R with two > > adaptec 2940U2W with Seagate ST39102 ultra2lv disks. We tried > > attaching only one outside disk to only one controller but the > > problem still persists. Once in a while freebsd will not boot, but > > hang during boot up, after 'waiting for scsi devices to settle.' > > We tried the same controller with the same scsi setup, and the same > > disks in a linux box and the problem didnt occur, so it's definetely > > some freebsd problem. > > > > Is this problem known yet, and is there some fix for it ? > > A possibly related problem we've seen here: FreeBSD sometimes needs a > hard reset (hit reset button) to reboot, while a software reboot will > hang during bootup. > > This happens on FreeBSD boxes with 3.1R or 3.1-STABLE, onboard Adaptec > 7890 U2W controller. Various (Seagate, IBM) LVD disks on LVD chain, > *and* DAT on single-ended chain. Using verbose boot, we see that the > hang occurs while probing the DAT and/or the CDROM player on the SE > chain. > I also seeing this kind of problem on 3 independent ASUS P2BLS Boards. Another board (Maybe later revision) is not showing this. We have tried a bios update and several FreeBSD Versions including some 4.0-current - but the problem still exists. I remember that boot -v showed something that I wanted to send to the FreeBSD-SCSI list - but I didn't yet because I don't have it logged. It stopped after probing some but not all drives before it would print the non -v informations. I expect this problem has something to do with the aic revision on that boards. I'll try to get the boot -v informations and the revision next week. > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- B.Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message