Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:04:57 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: msmith@mass.dis.org, hackers@freebsd.org, Sandeep Joshi <sandeepj@research.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" Message-ID: <XFMail.011116150457.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200111162255.fAGMteo03753@mass.dis.org>
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On 16-Nov-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online >> tips & references) but John Baldwin convinced me otherwise :-) > > The evidence suggests that my original analysis is correct: > >> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to >> the AIC-7896 SCSI BIOS v2.20s1B1 > ... >> cs=c800 ds=0040 ed=9e3e fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e3e > ... >> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to >> the AHA2940U2W SCSI BIOS v2.20 : > ... >> cs=cd80 ds=0040 ed=9e3e fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e3e > > Both of these are failures inside the BIOS on these SCSI cards. > > You'll have to come up with a "correct" MBR partition table for these > controllers. You might get away with 'disklabel auto', but if not, you'll > have to use fdisk. Nah, 'disklabel auto' is DD mode, so that will hose him. 'fdisk -I da0 ; disklabel da0s1 auto' is what you want. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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