From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 16 15: 5: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2449C37B419 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32244 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2001 23:05:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Nov 2001 23:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200111162255.fAGMteo03753@mass.dis.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:04:57 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" Cc: msmith@mass.dis.org, hackers@freebsd.org, Sandeep Joshi 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 On 16-Nov-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> 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. Nah, 'disklabel auto' is DD mode, so that will hose him. 'fdisk -I da0 ; disklabel da0s1 auto' is what you want. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message