Fw: Type 1 error: SCSI error during initial boot of 2.8 install CDROM and/or Floppy disk.

["Ken Garlock" <kennyg@phoenixdsl.com>]

Please kindly acknowledge my bug report.

Is it a bug?

Are there boot parameters I can enter to mitigate the problem?

Regards,
Ken Garlock     kennyg@phoenixdsl.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Garlock" <kennyg@phoenixdsl.com>
To: <bugs@openbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: Type 1 error: SCSI error during initial boot of 2.8 install CDROM
and/or Floppy disk.


> Problem:  Cannot boot installation CD and/or floppy to install 2.8.
>    During boot process I receive the following messages followed by a hang
> which requires a hardware reset:
> +++++++++++++++
> ahc1 at pci 0 dev 6 function 0 "Adaptec(2) AIC-7890/1 Ultra 2" rev 0x00:
irq
> 14
> ahc1: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> scsibus0 @ ahc1: 16 targets
> ahc1: board is not responding
> cmd fail
> Probe(ahc:0:0): SCB 0x1d - time out in Message-out phase, SEQADDR=0x165
> Probe(ahc1:0:0): DBR message in message buffer.
> +++++++++++++++
>
> System configuration:
> ASUS P2B-S,  Pentium III, 650 MHz,  128MB ECC memory
>    Onboard Adaptec 7890 chip set.
> Drive Configuration:
> SCSI ID      DRIVE                      APPLICATION
>    1                Quantum 4 GB         Linux V7.0
>    4                Quantum 2 GB         OpenBSD 2.7
>    5                HP DDS tape            Backups
>    6                HP CDRW                every system...
>    7                SCSI Controller
>    8                IBM  4GB                FreeBSD V4.2
>    9                IBM  4GB                Reserved for Solaris 8 x86
>    10              IBM  9 GB               WinME(3GB) and Win2000(5GB) and
> System Commander 2000
>    *** ID 10 is my BOOT DEVICE (no, boot is not id 0, scsi bios is set to
> make 10 the boot device)
>    12               Quantum 18Gb        General file storage, no OS
> installed.
> BIOS is the Latest available from ASUS and includes Adapter bios V3.0
>
> As you can see, I have SIX(6) operating systems of various sources,
> INCLUDING OpenBSD 2.7, all of which can find and use my scsi devices
without
> hesitation.  I saw in the 2.7 to 2.8 delta list that you included support
> for the Adaptec 2930 CU  and Bigendian support -- could these have
> introduced new scsi problems?  I was unable to find a problem like this in
> the message archives or the errata page.  I did try to disable the
pcibios,
> that made no impact.
>
> Regards,
> Ken Garlock     kennyg@phoenixdsl.com
>