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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:09:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Francis Jordan <francrj@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   4.5-RELEASE hangs dead (ciss and fdc)
Message-ID:  <20020302110905.97172.qmail@web20401.mail.yahoo.com>

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I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE on a Compaq
Proliant ML370 with a SmartArray 5i RAID controller.

First I tried to boot from the CD, but the generic
kernel on CD doesn't include the `ciss' driver, so the
installer couldn't find any disks.

So I made a custom kern.flp, and now the kernel finds
my da0 array, but hangs shortly afterwards after
printing these errors:

fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 13 failed at out byte 1 of 4
fdc0: Re-enable FIFO failed
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 8 failed at out byte 1 of 1
fdc0: sense intr err reading stat reg 0
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 8 failed at out byte 1 of 1
fdc0: sense intr err reading stat reg 0
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 8 failed at out byte 1 of 1
fdc0: sense intr err reading stat reg 0
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 8 failed at out byte 1 of 1
fdc0: sense intr err reading stat reg 0
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 7 failed at out byte 1 of 2
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 13 failed at out byte 1 of 4
fdc0: too many errors, not logging any more

<DEAD>

So here is the problem:  when I boot from the CD-ROM
drive, my floppy is fine, but no RAID.   When I boot a
custom ciss kernel from the floppy, the RAID array is
found but the floppy gets its knickers in a twist.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

FJ


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