Help with APA-1480A

[Dr. Guilherme Regis]

Hi,

> So you're booting from the install CD, the install program is detecting
> the drive, but hanging while, or after, talking/writing to the external
> SCSI hard drive, yes?
yes

> I would guess that there is a hardware problem: cabling, termination, SCSI
> ID designation, system BIOS setting, or other.
no

cable is okay
termination is okay (active)
SCSI ID is okay, ID=0 (the only device on the scsi bus)
system BIOS is okay, I double checked it using Adaptec Software
(for Windows).

> Also, you can get additional information at any point during installation
> by holding [Alt] and pressing [F1] through [F5].  See what these tell you.

CTRL-ALT-F3

in startPcmcia()
found cardbus pci adapter
need to load yenta_socket
going to insmod pcmcia_core.o (path is NULL)
going to insmod yenta_socket.o (path is NULL)
going to insmod ds.o (path is NULL)
cardmgr running as pid 44
cardmgr returned 0x0
probing buses
finished
found suggestions of xircom_cb
found suggestions of aic7xxx
found aic7xxx device
found suggestions of usb_uhui
found suggestions of yenta_socket
found devices just Probe is 0
going is insmod aic7xxx (path is NULL)

CTRL-ALT-F4

<4> SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0
<4> SCSI host abort (pid 0) time out - reseting
<4>                                  - trying harder
<4> SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0
<4> SCSI host abort (pid 0) time out - reseting
<4>                                  - trying harder
 .                  .                    .    
 .                  .                    .
 .                  .                    .

System devices shown are:

- Intel 440BX/ZX 82443BX/ZX Host Bridge (AGP disabled)
- Intel 82371 AB PII X4 ISA, IDE, USB (usb_uhui)
- sonypi: Intel 82371 AB PII X4 ACPI Bus master IDE Controller
- i82365: Texas Instruments PCI 1311
- Neomagic NM2160 MagicGraphic 128XD
- aic7xxx: Adaptec AIC-1480 / APA-1480
- apa1480_cb: Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host adapter
- tulip_cb: Xricom CBEII-10/100 Cardbus


Thanks
  Luiz

 
> hth,
> kf
> 
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Dr. Guilherme Regis wrote:
> 
> =
> = Hi,
> =
> = I can not run the commands you asked me to do because
> = I can not install the system onto the scsi disk.
> =
> =
> = On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, kf wrote:
> =
> = >
> = > Run "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" and "cdrecord -scanbus" and give us the results.
> = >
> = > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Dr. Guilherme Regis wrote:
> = >
> = > =
> = > = HD is connected to Notebook via CARDBUS (APA-1480A 50pin, HD SE-forced)
> = > =
> = > = On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, kf wrote:
> = > =
> = > = >
> = > = > How is the external harddrive connected to the Notebook?  Is it perhaps
> = > = > via the parallel port?
> = > = >
> = > = > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Dr. Guilherme Regis wrote:
> = > = >
> = > = > =
> = > = > = Hi there,
> = > = > =
> = > = > = I have a Compaq Notebook 1650 PII-266 Chipset
> = > = > = Intel-440BX/ZX, an external SCSI hard disk and
> = > = > = a APA-1480A SCSI adapter.
> = > = > = I have been trying to install RH7.2 onto the
> = > = > = external hard drive but install hangs when
> = > = > = loading the driver: ainc7xxx, displaying the
> = > = > = message: Loading aic7xxx...
> = > = > =
> = > = > = Does anyone have any clue about how to solve it
> = > = > = and get it installed ?
> = > = > = Does anyone know a Linux/FreeBSD system that
> = > = > = would install it properly ?
> = > = > =
> = > = > = Thanks in advance,
> = > = > =    Luiz Emediato
> = > = > =
> = > = > =
> = > = > = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo at FreeBSD.org
> = > = > = with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
> = > = > =
> = > = >
> = > = >
> = > =
> = >
> = >
> =
> =
> = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo at FreeBSD.org
> = with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
> =
> 
> 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo at FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message