From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 9:33:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeep.kcc.com (gatekeep.kcc.com [192.136.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902451523D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ellis@kcc.com) Received: from mail.kcc.com (ustcax00.kcc.com [205.203.65.10]) by gatekeep.kcc.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA05691 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:45:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from 205.203.65.10 by mail.kcc.com with ESMTP (WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v3.2 SR1); Tue, 30 Mar 99 11:23:10 -0600 X-Server-Uuid: fc96bae8-3f98-11d2-a40d-00805f199815 Received: by ustcax00.kcc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:23:10 -0600 Message-ID: <2B2253731B41D211846400805F19594B04B0F1CE@ustcax08.kcc.com> From: "Ellis, Joshua" To: Subject: AIC-7890 - can't install 3.1-RELEASE Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:25:36 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) X-WSS-ID: 1B1FD7F4120754-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm wracking my brains on this one. I've got over a dozen FreeBSD boxes that run like champs, but my new one just isn't going. ASUS P2B-S motherboard, with a PII/450. Using the onboard AIC-7890 controller with a Quantum Viking II 4.5WLS Ultra-LVD drive. On boot-up, everything identifies itself correctly. If I go into the on-board SCSI-Select utility, it identifies the hard drive, and I can run the low-level format, so the controller and drive appear to be communicating. Attempting to install 3.1-RELEASE, after the full-screen visual config, it starts to load the kernel. After going through the hardware detection, it gets to the point where it says, "waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" or something close. Then I start getting errors: Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0x40 SEQADDR == 0x8a (probe0:ahc0:0:0:1):SCB 0x0 - timed out in datain phase, SEQADDR==0x88 (probe0:ahc0:0:0:1):BDR message in message buffer (probe0:ahc0:0:0:1):SCB 0x0 - timed out in datain phase, SEQADDR==0x87 (probe0:ahc0:0:0:1):no longer in timeout, status=34b ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted This block of messages is repeated ad nauseum, or at least for 10 minutes, when I turn the machine off. I've verified the drive is terminated, verified we're in LVD mode, and tried different SCSI IDs. Any suggestions on what to look at next? Thanks, -joshua --- Joshua Ellis - Kimberly-Clark Internet/Intranet/Notes Services email: ellis@kcc.com * phone: 920/721-2779 * fax: 920/721-6180 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message