Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:12:13 -0500 From: "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Pete French" <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Subject: Re: Problems with COmpaq oonboard Symbios SCSI Message-ID: <010d01c0ded2$fe9044e0$04e48486@marble> References: <E150KHN-000MgD-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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"Pete French" <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD on a Compaq Workstation Pro 400. The > Compaq motherboard has an onboard Sybmios SCSI controller (like so > many COmpaqs do) but also came with a SMART-2LS RAID controller > which is what is being used to boot from. > > Now this all works fine, except for the fact that if I try to reboot > the machine it requires the power to be physically turned off before > it will boot again. If the machine is warm reset it will not get past > the point in the BIOS where the onboard SCSI controller scans for drives. > It simply freezes at that point and will not go any further. > > I first assumed that this was due to something odd the sym driver was > doing when probing the device, so I built a kernel without it in. Same > effect occurs :-( > > I;m currently running 4.2-STABLE on the machine (from a few days after > the release) but the effect has existed since 4.2-RELEASE > > Anybody else seeing this ? I have a Compaq Workstation AP500 at the office that will not reboot with Win2000. Windows shuts down to the point where the screen goes blank, but *nothing* happens after that. I chalked it up to something flaky in the Compaq BIOS. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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