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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:55:40 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Sandeep Joshi <sandeepj@research.bell-labs.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, msmith@mass.dis.org
Subject:   Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" 
Message-ID:  <200111162255.fAGMteo03753@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Sandeep Joshi <sandeepj@research.bell-labs.com>  of "Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:39:58 EST." <3BF5799E.1DBCB8A0@research.bell-labs.com> 

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> I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online 
> tips & references) but John Baldwin convinced me otherwise :-)

The evidence suggests that my original analysis is correct:

> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to 
> the AIC-7896 SCSI BIOS v2.20s1B1 
...
> cs=c800  ds=0040  ed=9e3e    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9e3e
...
> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to 
> the AHA2940U2W SCSI BIOS v2.20 :
...
> cs=cd80  ds=0040  ed=9e3e    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9e3e

Both of these are failures inside the BIOS on these SCSI cards.

You'll have to come up with a "correct" MBR partition table for these
controllers.  You might get away with 'disklabel auto', but if not, you'll
have to use fdisk.


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