Hi, I'm new to the FreeBSD lists, and still uncertain on protocol.
I posted this today on the freebsd-hardware list, but from the discussion I'm
seeing today, it may better apply to 5-stable than hardware.
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I'm installing 5-STABLE from the 5.4 CDset 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
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