Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 21:17:46 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: x@asdf.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboard comparisons Message-ID: <199905100317.VAA72743@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9905092259500.28735-100000@cobalt.novagate.net> from "x@asdf.com" at "May 9, 1999 11: 6:23 pm"
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x@asdf.com wrote... > Hello, > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Nicole Harrington wrote: > > > Asus works great, however with the particulat setup I had I kept getting stuck > > at the "waiting 15 secounds for SCSI devices." I had a bunch of LVD drives > > hanging off of an adaptec 2940U2W card. I had the same problem with the FIC > > board. Thus no tests for either. > > The same thing is happening to me now. I have an ASUS P2B-LS. I notice > when this happens the LED on my mobile HD rack turns on and stays on, and > I have to push the reset button. Even if I press the power button it will > not turn off. Funny thing is, I added the 'set boot_verbose' command into > the loader.rc file to see if I could get any more info as to why this is > happening, and so far it hasn't happened again since I added that line :-) > We'll see. > > Oh, I have MB rev 1007 with the onboard SCSI bios at 2.0.1. I am only > using one IBM U2 U-star 9 gig drive. It doesn't hang all the time like I > said above, and sometimes even booting into Windows it will hang. I was > going to investigate further and maybe upgrade the MB bios to see if it > helps any. There's a known hang problem with Adatpec 7890 chips. Justin has asked Adaptec for information on the problem so he can work around it, but so far he hasn't gotten anything. It's a timing-related bug, so it's not surprising that booting verbose "fixed" the problem. The extra printfs probably did the trick. I would suggest reading the freebsd-scsi list, so you can find out about problems like this... Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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