From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 8:30:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6D8415293 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 9242 invoked from network); 9 Nov 1999 16:30:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (195.166.140.212) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 9 Nov 1999 16:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <38284BFA.BA4B1750@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 16:29:46 +0000 From: Richard Morte X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: [Fwd: Panic with Advansys ASC3050 SCSI Controller] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I gave this a few days before re-submitting... If anyone can shed any light on the following problem, it would be __very__ much appreciated. Best wishes, Ric > I have a 2nd FreeBSD box that I use for testing configurations before > applying them to the main server. The FreeBSD installation is the 2nd > (dedicated) disk; disk 1 is Windows 98. > > I have just installed an "Iwill 2930C SCSI Adapter" which seems to be a > clone of the Advansys ASC3050 SCSI card. On boot up I now get > configuration errors and a panic, followed by reboot. > > The BIOS reports the following at boot-up: > Onboard USB Controller Slot 1 Ethernet, IRQ11 > Slot 2 SCSI, IRQ10 Onboard IDE, IRQ 14,15 > AGP VGA, IRQ11 > > I have tried the following: > > Reinstalled FreeBSD 3.2 in the 2nd drive (there's nothing of importance > on the drive, just the result of previous hacks...), but similar error > messages occur. Here they are: > > adv0: rev 0x03 on int a IRQ10 > on pci0.9.0 > adv0: Warning EEPROM checksum mismatch. Using default device parameters > adv0: WARNING! Failure writing to EEPROM. > adv0: Advansys Ultra SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, queue depth 240 > ... > adv0 not found at 0x330 (this appears only if adv0 is NOT deselected in > visual config) > > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle down... > panic adv_qdone: completed scsiq with unknown status > > Syncing disks... > Reboot....... etc > > Irrespective of whether adv0 is deselected in the visual config, I > cannot get the reinstall to work. It seems the GENERIC kernel is > configured with both adv0 and adw0 by default. > > The only thing I've spotted is that FreeBSD uses a different IRQ to that > reported by the BIOS; the visual config screen does not allow me to > change IRQs nor Port addresses for this device, just the flags. > > I have checked through the mailing archives, but didn't find much except > that the Advansys cards have only more recently been supported (not so, > apparently in 1997). There was one mailing with a mention about CAM > devices (whatever these are) and some references to CAM devices in the > release notes to 3.2 - but in the section indicating that the Advansys > cards seem to be supported. > > Anyone know what the problem is and how to get it configured? > > Many thanks for your help. > > Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message