Problems with SCSI

[David LeCount]

Okay, now we're getting somewhere (maybe). Looking in
the CMOS for firewire, I finally found the SCSI
controller setting. I never would have guessed it
would be under PCI configuration. Anyway, I enabled
that, and I disabled firewire, both ethernet ports (I
use wireless anyway), and both SATA channels. I'll
have to enable one of the SATA channels later since I
have a new SATA drive, but for now I want to keep it
as simple as possible. Also, I have the mpt device
built into my kernel, along with scbus and da. Still,
FreeBSD does not list a da device, dmesg doesn't show
anything about mpt, and there is no information
displayed on boot about SCSI drives. It's as if the
SCSI controller is still disabled, even though I
enabled it and saved settings. (I went back into CMOS
to verify it was still enabled.) Know any other
settings that could be disabling it? Thanks.

--- Rod Person <rodperson at adelphia.net> wrote:

> On Friday 03 March 2006 9:58 pm, David LeCount
> wrote:
> > I recently purchased a Tyan S2895 motherboard and
> more
> > recently a Hitachi SCSI drive. I'm trying like
> hell to
> 
> I just got my new workstation 2 days ago with the
> Tyan S2895
> motherboard. Mine is the K8WE with the LSI 1030 U320
> SCSI adapter built in.
> To get this to boot 6.0 I had to do the following.
> 
> In the BIOS:
> 
> 1. Disable the SLAVE MAC(NIC). Advanced->Integrated
> Devices->Slave Devices 
> Menu.
> 
> 2. Disable IEEE 1394(firewire). Advanced->PCI
> Configuration->Integrated 1394 
> Menu.
> 
> With my drive, which was a pull from my old
> workstation, I had kernel built 
> that did not have the mpt drive for the LSI adapter
> so during boot I choose 
> option 6 and the issused the command:
> 	
> 	load mpt
> 	boot
> 
> Then all booted fine.
> 
> Although you disable the slave nic (my board has 2
> nics) the primary still 
> work as long as you load the if_nve kernel module.
> 
> HTH
> -- 
> Rod Person
> 
> http://www.opensourcebeef.net
> http://blog.opensourcebeef.net
> 


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