From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 5 9:19:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tabby.kudra.com (gw.kudra.com [199.6.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6592014BE9 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@kudra.com) Received: (from robert@localhost) by tabby.kudra.com (8.9.2/8.6.12) id MAA48440; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:19:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990305121908.A48418@kudra.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:19:08 -0500 From: Robert Sexton To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangs on external disks 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 0.93.2i 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: > > 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've seen this quite a few times recently, as of 3.1. Last night in my machine (Symbios 875 & 895 COntrollers) and two weeks ago in a customers machine (HP Netserver with build in Adaptec EISA controller) I'll try to reproduce it this weekend at home and file a pr. -- Robert Sexton, robert@kudra.com FreeBSD - Quality BSD UNIX for Intel and Alpha that you don't have to shave your head to use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message