Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:46:35 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help needed with an unruly AST & Adaptec 2940 Message-ID: <35BF35CB.988CAF6@tdx.co.uk>
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Hi All, I've just started to set-up a 3rd FreeBSD machine - which is identical to 2 other boxes we have running as production servers... The machine is an AST Premmia G90 (P90, 64 Mb RAM, Onboard NE2100 compatible network card, Onboard NCR SCSI). We don't use the onboard SCSI (though the problem below persists with or without it enabled)... Instead we fit an Adaptec 2940UW, with a KGB Altas-II hard drive... This works fine for the other 2 machines, but this one can't even find the SCSI drive... The 2940 has an AIC7880p chip on it, and BIOS v1.32 - I've tried all the usual stuff in the BIOS (i.e. termination etc.) - NT finds the drive fine (It would, wouldn't' it?) - but booting FreeBSD 2.2.7 or 2.2.5 boot disks gives me: " eisa0 <AST681 (System Board)> Probing for devices on the EISA bus DPT: EISA SCSI HBA Driver, version 1.4.3 Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 <Intel 8243NX (Neptune) PCI cache memory controller> Rev 17 on pci0:0:0 ncr0 <NCR 53c810 fast10 SCSI> Rev 1 int a irq 15 on pci0:1:0 ncr0 waiting for SCSI devices to settle chip1 <Intel 82375EB PCI-EISA bridge> rev 4 on pci0:2:0 ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adaptor> Rev 1 int a on irq 11 on pci0:3:0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16 SCB's ahc0 waiting for SCSI devices to settle ahc0: board is not responding (ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI == 0x0 SEQADDR = 0x167 SCSIREQ = 0x12 SSTAT0=0x4 SSTAT1 = 0x8 (ahc0:0:0): Queing an abort ahc0: board is not responding " If I run with 'boot: -v' - I get basically the same, except it mentions 'uploading 387' (or similar) commands to the SCSI adapter... Unfortunately I can't down the other 2 boxes to swap bits (this box is meant to be a hot spare - how ironic? <G>) Looking at the DMESG's for the other boxes - they all appear identical up to the point where the board doesn't respond... The other boxes have much older 2940's in them (e.g. BIOS 1.24 etc) Can anyone suggest anything? Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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