OK, this is going to be a little hard to give all the right information for given that the symptoms I'm reporting don't even allow the box in question to get up far enough to generate useful debugging info, but I'll give it my best shot anyway. In short, this is an older dual PIII box with the on-board Adaptec Ultra/Wide controller (one of the older ASUS motherboards we all used to covet when they cost $600 a pop). Plugged into that controller are two IBM LVD drives, a CDROM drive and an iomega Jaz drive (remember those? :). Running a -current kernel from May 1st, the box works just fine albeit with one warning when it tries to probe the Jaz drive, which has no media in it. If you like, I can try stuffing a Jaz disk in there for giggles, but the error in question is benign in any case (see below). Using a kernel compiled on July 6th, however, I can't get any farther than the "Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" message you see below, then there's a long delay followed by a dump of the card state (sadly, to the screen rather than some non-perishable medium) and lots of whining about the number of SCBs which were just aborted. It continues looping in that way, resetting the controller and whining, forever. Unfortunately, the only other machine in this room is a Mac and those are notorious for not having serial cards, so it's not even going to be easy to wire up a serial console to this baby, but I can always give it a shot if someone thinks that data will be really helpful - I'll have to go get a USB serial adaptor or something. Anyway, here's the relevant boot messages from a *functioning* (May 1st) kernel. That's the last time the ahc driver worked on my system. Like I said, with the non-functioning kernel, we don't get any further than waiting for the SCSI devices to settle and then abort/looping: ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xdd800000 -0xdd800fff irq 14 at device 6.0 on pci0 ahc0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0xb000 ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ... Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da2: <iomega jaz 2GB E.17> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da2: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15) da2: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 cd0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6401TA 1009> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <IBM DDRS-39130D DC1B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8715MB (17850000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1111C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da1: <IBM DDRS-39130D DC1B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8715MB (17850000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1111C) (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): Medium not present (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da2 -> 6 (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): Medium not present (da2:ahc0:0:5:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da2 -> 6 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a -- Jordan K. Hubbard Engineering Manager, BSD technology group Apple ComputerReceived on Sat Jul 10 2004 - 19:51:01 UTC
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