SCSI device timeout

[Johan Ström]

On 1 feb 2006, at 11.42, Holm Tiffe wrote:

> Johan Ström wrote:
>
>> On 1 feb 2006, at 10.57, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>
>>> Derkjan de Haan wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Today, after a cvsup (RELENG_6) and a rebuild of kernel and  
>>>> world, my
>>>> system no longer boots. It hangs on
>>>>
>>>> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>>>>
>>>> Booting from the previous kernel allows my system to boot again.
>>>> Please let
>>>> me know if I can do anything to diagnose further.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Derkjan de Haan
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have exactly the same problem here on a ASUS A7V333 Motherboard  
>>> and
>>> an Adaptec 3960D SCSI Controller.
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be in the acpi interrupt routing, I've updated
>>> the mainboard Bios to the last available version in the meantime
>>> (1018.004 Beta) with no luck. Disabling acpi completly helps booting
>>> the machine again..
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I got one of those motherboards.. however no SCSI card but a promise.
>> Ive hade huge problems with it (check out the "Page fault, GEOM
>> problem??" thread). The problems i had was random crashes and very
>> bad speed to the disks.
>> It was solved by throwing the mobo out with a new one with nforce2
>> chipset... Got great speeds now and haven't had a crash since i
>> installed it (roughly a week now).
>>
>> Johan Ström
>> johan at stromnet.org
>> http://www.stromnet.org/
>>
>
> No Johan, my A7V333 has no problem, it runs for arounrd 2 years now  
> as my
> personal workstation here at work 24/7.
>
> I've cvsupped RELENG_6 again for an hour or so and the now build  
> kernel
> runs flawlessly. There are some new patches in the pci code.
>
> Regards,
>
> Holm
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Hi, yes I've been running it for around 2-3 years too, but with  
linux. A couple of months ago I switched to fbsd and problems began  
to occur.
Might not be the same problem however..