One more 2300 healthy (rats?)

[Robert G. Brown]

Dear List (and Doug and Justin),

Well, Justin, <*blush*,*hang head*> I guess that I must have gotten the
wrong freebsd boot image the time before, or the snapshot that I got
just happened to be the wrong one, or... I dunno.  It doesn't matter at
this point

Anyway, the 9/19 cam boot.flp image booted my "sick" PowerEdge 2300,
found the 7890 device, and I could have proceeded to install freebsd if
I had any idea how to install freebsd from just one floppy.  It also
rewrote whatever internal register was causing the trouble, as
5.1.0pre10 booted flawlessly immediately thereafter.  I have to confess
that I'm amazed that there is something that critical to function that
isn't cleared by a power cycle (including one where I jumpered NVRAM
clear and pulled the plug and punched the power button and...), but
there it is.

So, Doug, I think that you are probably correct about something not
getting written to, if only to clear it and get its parity right, during
the initialization phase.  Unfortunately (;-) I'm now down to just ONE
system that is exhibiting the problem.  Presumably I could fix it by
booting freebsd (well, not FIX it exactly as it has a hard memory error
showing up too, but clear whatever is ailing the SCSI controller).  If
you like, I will try to hold onto this system for a few days without
doing so until you see if you can reproduce the error on something
there.  If nothing else, I can be a final test site for whatever
solution you come up with in pre11.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions so far,

       rgb

Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu




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