Clint Gilders
2003-Oct-27 12:36 UTC
Boot of Dell 1750 fails with multiple SCSI drives installed
Hi All We have a brand new Dell Power Edge 1750 with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra 4 SCSI Adapter and 2 x 73 GB harddrives. I did not do the install because I am about 1000 miles form our co-location facility, but here is the information I have on the problems seen by the tech doing the install. With the two factory installed drives attached the system will not boot from the install CD. If the second drive is disconnected the system can be installed, but again will not boot if the second drive is connected. The system is running 4.9-RC with an SMP kernel. 4.8 gave the same results. This is what's logged with one or two drives: Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xcc00-0xccff mem 0xfcd20000-0xfcd2ffff,0xfcd30000-0xfcd3ffff irq 7 at device 5.0 on pci4 Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: mpt1: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfcd00000-0xfcd0ffff,0xfcd10000-0xfcd1ffff irq 13 at device 5.1 on pci4 Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1 at mpt0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1: <PE/PV 1x3 SCSI BP 1.1> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1: 3.300MB/s transfers Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: <IBM IC35L073UCDY10-0 S27F> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: 70007MB (143374650 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C) Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a When there are two drives the machine hangs at this point and prints the following error message to the console: MPT0: time out on request sequence: sequence = 0xFD Anyone else have this problem with FreeBSD? Is there a workaround? Need more info? Thanks -- Clint Gilders <techservices@onlinehobbyist.com> Director of Technology Services OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc.
David Watson
2003-Oct-27 14:40 UTC
Boot of Dell 1750 fails with multiple SCSI drives installed
> We have a brand new Dell Power Edge 1750 with an LSILogic 1030 > Ultra 4 SCSI Adapter and 2 x 73 GB harddrives. > > With the two factory installed drives attached the system will not > boot from the install CD.We're having similar problems with a PowerEdge 2600, that probably has an identical controller and drives. I haven't had time to diagnose the problem but was able to do an install after removing all but one drive. After booting I was able to add the other drives and rescan the bus (camcontrol rescan all). I didn't verify that I could write to the drives, but camcontrol completed successfully and the drives appeared to be available. When I try to boot with more than one drive it pauses for a long time after "Waiting for SCSI devices to settle" and then prints out a bunch of errors before eventually rebooting. It looks like there's a problem when the SCSI driver tries to probe the disks. I haven't had a chance to try to track this down further, but I will try to get more details in the near future. David Watson
Doug White
2003-Oct-28 09:26 UTC
Boot of Dell 1750 fails with multiple SCSI drives installed
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Clint Gilders wrote:> We have a brand new Dell Power Edge 1750 with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra 4 > SCSI Adapter and 2 x 73 GB harddrives. > > I did not do the install because I am about 1000 miles form our > co-location facility, but here is the information I have on the problems > seen by the tech doing the install.I did this install on one of these 2 weeks ago and it worked perfectly. Perhaps the backplane board in the system is damaged?> With the two factory installed drives attached the system will not boot > from the install CD. If the second drive is disconnected the system can > be installed, but again will not boot if the second drive is connected. > The system is running 4.9-RC with an SMP kernel. 4.8 gave the same > results. > > This is what's logged with one or two drives: > > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xcc00-0xccff mem > 0xfcd20000-0xfcd2ffff,0xfcd30000-0xfcd3ffff irq 7 at device 5.0 on pci4 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: mpt1: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem > 0xfcd00000-0xfcd0ffff,0xfcd10000-0xfcd1ffff irq 13 at device 5.1 on pci4 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1 at mpt0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1: <PE/PV 1x3 SCSI BP 1.1> FixedProcessor SCSI-2 device> Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: pass1: 3.300MB/s transfers > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: <IBM IC35L073UCDY10-0 S27F> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 > device > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), > Tagged Queueing Enabled > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: da0: 70007MB (143374650 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C) > Oct 27 10:30:26 king7 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > When there are two drives the machine hangs at this point and prints the following error > message to the console: > > MPT0: time out on request sequence: sequence = 0xFDCommand timeouts are usually indicitive of SCSI connectivity problems. I would get the Dell diagnostics disk and run it on your system. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
Vivek Khera
2003-Nov-11 14:27 UTC
Boot of Dell 1750 fails with multiple SCSI drives installed
>>>>> "CG" == Clint Gilders <techservices@onlinehobbyist.com> writes:CG> Hi All CG> We have a brand new Dell Power Edge 1750 with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra 4 CG> SCSI Adapter and 2 x 73 GB harddrives. [...] CG> With the two factory installed drives attached the system will not CG> boot from the install CD. If the second drive is disconnected the CG> system can be installed, but again will not boot if the second drive CG> is connected. The system is running 4.9-RC with an SMP kernel. 4.8 CG> gave the same results. FWIW, I just set up a 1750 dual proc with a dell PERC4 RAID card and two mirrored disks with zero problems using a 4.9-RELEASE CD. Did you run the Dell hardware diagnostics? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/