Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:09:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> To: rotan@cs.pdx.edu (robert t tan) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHA-2940UW Message-ID: <199807202309.SAA18098@fep.hirshfields.com> In-Reply-To: <199807200632.XAA26893@rigel.cs.pdx.edu> from robert t tan at "Jul 19, 98 11:32:13 pm"
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Hi.
Here is a breif summary of my expericences with 2940UW and FreeBSD.
There appears, IMHO and others I have talked to on this, that there
is a FreeBSD bug/quirk with the 2940UW driver and some motherboards.
I too have had the exact same situtation as you describe. And quite
frankly, you are SOL with this motherboard.
One other user reported that Win95, NT, Linux, NetBSD all installed
and worked on his motherboard/2940UW/HD; BUT, FreeBSD would not work.
I can't tell you the chipset off hand of my motherboards, they where
a bunch of DEC FP590's. I ended up using the AHA-2940AU narrow scsi in
those machines. Then I bought a bunch of newer DEC 5200's. These have the
TX motherboard I believe, and the 2940UW works in them (All have Phoenix
BIOS's in them).
Forget all those e-mail messages about terminations and all that crap.
That's not the problem.
Hope this helps and shed's some light on the subject.
Roger
> Hi,
>
> Need help with the following, please:
>
> This is my configuration:
>
> Terminated, 2G Western Digital Wide SCSI hard drive ( 16 bit),
> Terminated 12/20 Plexter CDROM ( 8 bit ) SCSI.
> AHA-2940UW SCSI host adapter
> Micron Millenia board.
> Besided the controller card there is just the video
> card.
>
> Sync and Disconnect are both disabled for all the
> devices in the SCSI chain ( hard drive, CDROM,
> and controller ).
> Mother Board BIOS: Phoenix v4.04
> Host adapter BIOS: v1.32
> PNP is disabled.
>
> Partitions:
> Primary active DOS partition: 250M win95
> Rest: Unused.
>
> I have a problem when booting FreeBSD with the
> install floppy: /RELEASE2.2.6/updates/boot.flp,
> see below for boot dmesg output
> By the way WIN95 runs fine, and had FreeBSD runing
> when I used a buslogic controler on a regular SCSI
> drive ( 2G )
>
> Have tried the following:
> - Disconnecting the CDROM.
> - Taking out the controller and booting untill
> "No Operating System", then rebooting again.
> - Moving the controller to different PCI slots.
> - Sync, and disconnect enabled.
> - Searching around for this problem on the net.
>
> Below:
> >>
> Mouse IRQ12: enabled
> Interrupt Routing: A: disabled, B: disabled, C: IRQ15, D: IRQ11 MB0:
> disabled, MB1: disabled
> chip2 <Intel 83371FB IDE interface> rev 1 int a irq 11 on pci0:17:0
> mapreg[10] type = 1 addr = 0000fc00 size = 0100
> mapreg[14] type = 0 addr = f0dff000 size = 1000
> reg16: ioaddr = 0xfc00 size 0x100
> ahc0: reading SEEPROM ... done
> internal 50 cable is present
> internal 68 cable is present
> brdctl == 0x2c
> external cable not present
> eprom is present
> brdctl == 0xcc
> low byte termination disabled, high byte termination enabled
> ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id = 7, 116 SCBs
> ahc0: Downloading Sequencer program ... ahc: 373 instructions downloaded
> Done
> ahc0: Probing channel A
> ahc0: Waiting for scsi devices to settle
> achc0: board is not responding
> (ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x01 SCSISIGI ==
> 0x0
> SEQADDR = 0x166 SCSISEQ = 0x12 SSTAT0 = 0x4 SSTAT1 = 0x8
> (ahc0:0:0) Queueing an abort SCB ahc:0 board is not responding
> cmd fail
> (ahc0:0:0) SCB 0x1 timed out while recovery in progress
> (ahc0:0:0) "Unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed SCSI 0
> uk0(ahc0:0:0): Unknown
> ahc0: board is not responding
> .....
> <<
>
> Thanks,
>
> robert t tan
>
>
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