From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 17 21:38:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA09235 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 May 1997 21:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cajon.cfg.com (cajon.cfg.com [192.84.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09228 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 21:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alray.cfg.com (alray.cfg.com [192.84.10.15]) by cajon.cfg.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA22029 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 21:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970517213735.3d0f8af0@mail.cfg.com> X-Sender: shc@mail.cfg.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 21:37:35 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Steve Caine Subject: 2940 Can't Find Disks After Rebooting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've just installed a copy of 2.2.1-Release which runs fine. However, I can't reboot it without first turning power off & back on. System: 166 MHZ Pentium Award Bios V4.51P6 with V1.0A Plug & Play Extensions Adaptec 2940A Ultra SCSI (AHA-2940AU Bios V1.21) Two Quantum Fireball 2.02 GB disks Toshiba ATAPI CDROM (I know; I ordered a SCSI CDROM but this is what came) When booting after power-on, the Adaptec finds the 2 disks, the boot manager runs & starts the FreeBSD boot, FreeBSD comes up & all is well. On the next boot attempt, however, the Adaptec gives the "Press ^A to run utilities" message, waits for about 60 seconds, and says "Timeout failure during SCSI Inquiry Command" -- it doesn't find either of the disks. If I turn power off & back on, the Adaptec finds the disks & the whole boot is successful. I've installed other FreeBSD's (2.1.5-R's) on machines with Ami Bios with no trouble, so I suspect either I've got the Adaptec misconfigured or there is a problem with the Award Bios & the FreeBSD drivers. I've searched the mailing list archives but don't see anything applicable. Thanks in advance for any ideas, pointers, etc. Steve.