Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:25:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> To: aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: One more 2300 healthy (rats?) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980921181424.11563J-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu>
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Dear List (and Doug and Justin), Well, Justin, <*blush*,*hang head*> I guess that I must have gotten the wrong freebsd boot image the time before, or the snapshot that I got just happened to be the wrong one, or... I dunno. It doesn't matter at this point Anyway, the 9/19 cam boot.flp image booted my "sick" PowerEdge 2300, found the 7890 device, and I could have proceeded to install freebsd if I had any idea how to install freebsd from just one floppy. It also rewrote whatever internal register was causing the trouble, as 5.1.0pre10 booted flawlessly immediately thereafter. I have to confess that I'm amazed that there is something that critical to function that isn't cleared by a power cycle (including one where I jumpered NVRAM clear and pulled the plug and punched the power button and...), but there it is. So, Doug, I think that you are probably correct about something not getting written to, if only to clear it and get its parity right, during the initialization phase. Unfortunately (;-) I'm now down to just ONE system that is exhibiting the problem. Presumably I could fix it by booting freebsd (well, not FIX it exactly as it has a hard memory error showing up too, but clear whatever is ailing the SCSI controller). If you like, I will try to hold onto this system for a few days without doing so until you see if you can reproduce the error on something there. If nothing else, I can be a final test site for whatever solution you come up with in pre11. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions so far, rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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