From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 16 14:53:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD13C37B405 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAGMteo03753; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:55:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200111162255.fAGMteo03753@mass.dis.org> To: Sandeep Joshi Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" In-Reply-To: Message from Sandeep Joshi of "Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:39:58 EST." <3BF5799E.1DBCB8A0@research.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:55:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message