Hi, I'm new to the list, but have been using BSD for five+ years. I tried installing 5-STABLE from the 5.4CDs onto a new HP DL140 G2 with an Adaptec 2120S RAID controller that someone else had already installed with a Linux OS. Two HDD are config'd as RAID1 set. After the probes for VGA & mouse, the boot stuck on a repeated series of messages:
aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef000 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS # 16 diff hex offsets per set .. each set repeating every 20 seconds aac0: COMMAND 0xc39ef708 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS A different boot has a different hex prefix, 0xc3a16, but the same sequence of 16 trailing digits, 000 to 708. Searching this list, I found a similar post from Chris Knight in January, but he was on 6 and that was apparently right at a change to the aac driver. Searching FreeBSD.org turned up a similar problem back in March 2004 [5.2.1]. Scott Long responded to that one as a known issue being resolved. The BIOS firmware was 'Build 7244' from May 2004, but I updated that to Build 8205 [latest for that chipset] and still had the same problem. Would the pre-existing different OS install mess up the aac0 driver? like format the array first? I broke the array, re-inited the disks and recreated RAID 1.. but didn't format drives .. still had problem. something else? I was able to install Fedora4 after failing on 5.4, but I'd like to use FreeBSD for this project. comments appreciated. glen van lehn _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
