From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 17:46:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F9F16A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:46:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7F043D5F for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:46:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3E5CFF; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36124-08; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC35E5CDF; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <426D2CE1.5010503@mac.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:46:09 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ChrisC References: <6.1.2.0.0.20050424095347.019ab7b0@pop.east.cox.net> <426BEBF7.8010203@mac.com> <6.1.2.0.0.20050424182653.01b33ec0@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20050424182653.01b33ec0@pop.east.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:46:21 -0000 ChrisC wrote: [ ... ] > In my mind there is always the possibility of a problem being a pebkac but this > problem only occurs with FreeBSD. The SCSI controller works fine when I load > RedHat Fedora Core 3 or Windows 2000 Pro. Unfortunately I don't know much about > FreeBSD to do much trouble shooting myself so I might just have to go with > another OS on this specific server. A system that works is more useful to you than one which doesn't-- maybe that would be best. [ ... ] > *Ata1-master : FAILURE – ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > -------Dump Card State Ends------- > (probe29:ahd1:0:15:0) SCB0xe – timed out > ahd0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset 4 SCBs aborted > - > Thanks again for taking time to reply. There are people who are a lot more expert than I at interpreting Adaptec card dumps lurking on these lists, but honestly, there isn't much here to go on. My first take would have been to double-check the cabling, and retest the hardware in another machine. But if the hardware seems to work using another OS, well, the easy answers are out. I might try disabling your ATA controller entirely, if you are not using it, to remove the first error message... -- -Chuck