I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives. The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm retyping here) ============================================================================================ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: WARNING - SET_MULTI task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET_MULTI timed out ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata2-master PIO4 ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: WARNING - SET_MULTI task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET_MULTI timed out ad8: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata4-master PIO4 ============================================================================================ and then these messages (and minor variants) keep repeating (I've let it go for at least one hour). I have about three dozen of these computers (from a failed M$ project) and would very much like to use them with FreeBSD. Any ideas? I'm game for almost anything. Thanks.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:01:55PM -0400, David Boyd wrote:> I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise > SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives. > > The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm > retyping here) > > {snip -- for dmesg errors, see URL below}You're the second person to report this problem recently. The other person (see below) reported the same thing, also using a PATA controller, and also using Seagate disks (though different models). We now have two reproducible test cases where users are seeing continual errors from the controller when attempting to set the transfer mode, enable read and write caching, and SET_MULTI. The only similarity so far is that they're both PATA users. In Kristian's case, his disks were in a usable state, but we ultimately determine the Silicon Image controller might be responsible for what he was seeing (the SMART errors we saw in his logs could've been from any time in the past; he saw errors on multiple disks, and not all of those disks shown SMART log errors)... while David's not using a Silicon Image controller at all. Kristian's setup: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046023.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046027.html Silicon Image 0680 ATA100 (problem was also seen on Promise PDC20270) ad4: <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAF> at ata2-master PIO4 ad5: <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAF> at ata2-slave PIO4 ad6: <Seagate ST3750640A 3.AAE> at ata3-master PIO4 ad7: <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAD> at ata3-slave PIO4 David's setup (what we know so far): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046140.html Promise SX4060 ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata2-master PIO4 ad8: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata4-master PIO4 Soren/Andrey, can either of you comment on this? If at all possible, it would be good to get this hammered out before 7.1-RELEASE is tagged. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
David Boyd wrote:> I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise > SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives.Did you try to select "Safe mode" in boot menu or boot with ACPI disabled? Can you boot your system in verbose mode and show dmesg.boot? -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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