From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 14:17:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA18691 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18673 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp-089.etinc.com (ppp-089.etinc.com [204.141.95.148]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA24840; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:21:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:21:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199608162121.RAA24840@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Narvi From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Subject: Re: Hang in the sc0 probe... Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > HI! > >I have a problem with one of our machines. It used to be a FreeBSD >file/printer server with uptimes ~ several months (all terminated by >typing reboot). Now today I had a real sever need for a graphics card >(actually, not me, but that changes nothing) and silly me! I shut it >down, powered it down and took the card from it for ~ 1/2 hour. After >putting the card back, it no longer boots up - it hangs after the line >probing sc0... Everything else is probed OK, hard discs are found, etc. > >When booting from the 2.1.0-RELEASE boot.flp, it starts to look for the >sc0 in the beginning and also hangs. > >What thing on the earth could be causing such a pehaviour? Is there a keyboard in the machine? I've sent the fix for that in a few times... and eventually gave up. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX