From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 13 18:13:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F95337B476 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24CE43FAF for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@ruminary.org) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0019A22E19; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:13:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:13:16 -0800 From: clark shishido To: Samuel Kesterson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel ISP2150 Message-ID: <20030314021316.GA24050@ruminary.org> References: <20030313234020.GB13721@travelnow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313234020.GB13721@travelnow.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:40:20PM -0600, Samuel Kesterson wrote: > > It's running BIOS 12.3 which according to Intel's site is the latest > available for it. > I've found that not all SCSI problems go away unless I use BIOS 14.3. http://downloadfinder2.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?agr=N&ProductID=309&DwnldID=3306 It's probably the BIOS via serial console that's giving you problems. I experience these BTX halted errors on approximately 25% of the over 50 ISP2150 and L440GX+ mobo machines I administer. Turn of the BIOS over serial console feature and I've been able to boot w/o errors. Others have reported it as well and even filled out a PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/30125 --clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message