From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 04:15:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 E85B216A40F for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F93643D53 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:15:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9Q4F5Lm094992; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:15:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <45403648.7050407@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:15:04 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glen Van Lehn References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install 5.4 CD, Adaptec 2120S, aac0: Command Timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:15:20 -0000 Glen Van Lehn wrote: >>>> Scott Long 10/25/06 7:36 PM >>> > Glen Van Lehn wrote: >> Hi, I'm new to the FreeBSD lists, and still uncertain on protocol. >> >> I posted this today on the freebsd-hardware list, but from the discussion I'm seeing today, it may better apply to 5-stable than hardware. >> ----- >> I'm installing 5-STABLE from the 5.4 CDset onto a new HP DL140 G2 with an Adaptec 2120S RAID controller that someone else had already installed with a Linux OS. Two HDD are config'd as RAID1 set. After the probes for VGA & mouse, the boot stuck on a repeated series of messages: >> >> aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef000 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS >> # 16 diff hex offsets per set .. each set repeating every 20 seconds >> aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef708 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS >> >> A different boot has a different hex prefix, 0xc3a16, but the same sequence of 16 trailing digits, 000 to 708. >> >> Searching this list, I found a similar post from Chris Knight in January, but he was on 6 and that was apparently right at a change to the aac driver. Searching FreeBSD.org turned up a similar problem back in March 2004 [5.2.1]. Scott Long responded to that one as a known issue being resolved. >> >> The BIOS firmware was 'Build 7244' from May 2004, but I updated that to Build 8205 [latest for that chipset] and still had the same problem. >> >> Would the pre-existing different OS install mess up the aac0 driver? like format the array first? >> I broke the array, re-inited the disks and recreated RAID 1.. but didn't format drives .. still had problem. >> >> something else? I was able to install Fedora4 after failing on 5.4, but I'd like to use FreeBSD for this project. >> >> comments appreciated, >> >> glen van lehn >> > > Does the 'Safe mode' boot option work? This is likely an interrupt > routing problem. > > Scott > > ---- > Yes! it did, thank you. > > glen > Ok, you'll probably want to put the following line into /boot/loader.conf: hint.apic.0.disabled=1 However, if this is an SMP machine, this option will only allow 1 CPU to be used. If this option doesn't work, then the next one to try is hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 Scott