RE: Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 Problems

It still does the same timeout and hangs the disc. Theres the option
of "Installed OS" which you can set to Other, Win95, Win98, WinME
or Win2000. (I've only tried "Other" and "Win2000" in all honesty).

Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Long [mailto:scottl_at_freebsd.org] 
> Sent: 22 July 2003 16:12
> To: Lawrence Farr
> Cc: current_at_FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 Problems
> 
> 
> Lawrence Farr wrote:
> > I have a Supermicro SuperServer 6013P-8, with:
> > 
> > ahd0: <Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> port
> > 0x4000-0x40ff,0x4400-0x44ff mem 0xfc300000-0xfc301fff irq 5 
> at device 2.0 on
> > pci3
> > aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 
> 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
> > ahd1: <Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> port
> > 0x4800-0x48ff,0x4c00-0x4cff mem 0xfc302000-0xfc303fff irq 5 
> at device 2.1 on
> > pci3
> > aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 
> 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
> > 
> > Trying to install 5.1-CURRENT-20030709-JPSNAP or 4.8-STABLE on the
> > box gives a timeout error that will hang the disk in a state that
> > resetting the machine does not clear, and only power cycling will
> > clear. Ive replaced the disks with no change, but installed and
> > ran Redhat 7.3 on the box with no timeouts or errors.
> > 
> > The full dmesg is here:
> > http://aticatac.epcdirect.co.uk/~l.farr/6013P8_dmesg.txt
> > 
> > And timeout is here:
> > http://aticatac.epcdirect.co.uk/~l.farr/AIC7902_timeout.txt
> > 
> > Lawrence Farr
> > EPC Direct Limited 
> 
> Timeouts usually point to interrupt routing problems.  Try 
> booting with
> ACPI turned off.
> 
> Scott
>