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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:03:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ron Klinkien <root@zappa.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec SCSI messages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811161602000.17775-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981114144915.A244@zappa.demon.nl>

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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Ron Klinkien wrote:

> I have my FreeBSD system running for a few weeks now,
> but during bootup there is a long timeout and a message
> displayed from the adaptec scsi adapter when
> there is a probe on my scsi disc.

Check your termination, it looks like your SCSI hard disk isn't responding
immediately.  Perhaps it needs to be spun up first?

> Any scsi wizards know what this mean, and what to do?
> 
> Snippits from dmesg:
> ---
> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.6.0
> ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs  
> ---
> Waiting 4 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x6 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI == 0xf4
> SEQADDR == 0x15b
> SSTAT1 == 0x2
> (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): Queuing a BDR SCB
> (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x6 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1, SCSISIGI == 0xf4
> SEQADDR == 0x15b
> SSTAT1 == 0x2
> (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b
> ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 8 SCBs aborted
> changing root device to da0s1a
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> da0: <QUANTUM VIKING II 4.5WLS 3506> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device
> da0: 40.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 4350MB (8910423 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 554C) 
> ---
> cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-32TS 1.03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device
> cd0: 20.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 15)
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> (da0:ahc0:0:6:0): tagged openings now 63
> ---
> zappa# uname -a
> FreeBSD zappa.demon.nl 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #6: Thu Nov 12 21:04:50
>  CET 1998     root@zappa.demon.nl:/usr/src/sys/compile/UMRK5  i386

Er, current questions should go to current@freebsd.org.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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