Etienne Ledoux
2003-Jun-24 06:37 UTC
Greetings I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Cluster Server. But when I boot with the CD's ( 4.4, 4.8 & 5.0 ), it will boot all the way upto "Wait 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and then it immedialty give the following message: (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. After this the machine is basically unresponsive/dead. Any idea what could be causing this and what I could do to fix it ? e.
Greetings I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Cluster Server. But when I boot with the CD's ( 4.4, 4.8 & 5.0 ), it will boot all the way upto "Wait 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and then it immedialty give the following message: (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. After this the machine is basically unresponsive/dead. Any idea what could be causing this and what I could do to fix it ? e.
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Etienne Ledoux wrote:> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Cluster Server. But when I boot with the > CD's ( 4.4, 4.8 & 5.0 ), it will boot all the way upto "Wait 15 seconds for > SCSI devices to settle" and then it immedialty give the following message: > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. > (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. > After this the machine is basically unresponsive/dead.Do you know if your machine/hardware is supported? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html Either way, it looks like you may want to follow up with freebsd-scsi if you don't get a reply here. -mrh -- From: "Spam Catcher" <spam-catcher@adept.org> To: spam-catcher@adept.org Do NOT send email to the address listed above or you will be added to a blacklist!
Erik Paulsen Skaalerud
2003-Jun-24 14:44 UTC
Greetings I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Cluster Server.But when I boot with the CD's ( 4.4, 4.8 & 5.0 ), it will boot allthe way upto "Wait 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and thenit immedialty give the following message:(noperiph:sy
> Greetings > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Cluster Server. But > when I boot with the > CD's ( 4.4, 4.8 & 5.0 ), it will boot all the way upto "Wait > 15 seconds for > SCSI devices to settle" and then it immedialty give the > following message: > > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. > (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. > > After this the machine is basically unresponsive/dead. > > Any idea what could be causing this and what I could do to fix it ?I don't believe FreeBSD support shared-disk clusters (wich you probably have?) Erik.
Etienne Ledoux
2003-Jun-25 07:19 UTC
(noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. -- HP Netserver LH3r
Ok i fixed my subject a bit. Well I've tried FreeBSD (4.4, 4.8, 5.0), SuSE Linux 8.1, Redhat 9.0. All these operating systems fail to detect the hdd and when trying to load the scsi drivers for it it gives timeout errors (redhat & suse). FreeBSD gives: (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. This made me think that it might be a problem with the hardware configuration. I've got two exactly the same machines. Both give exactly the same error. I changed the scsi configuration on one machine. Trying different settings. No change. (except for the few times where my changes disabled the hdd and it couldn't find any OS). I installed the FreeBSD putting the drives into another HP server (which btw also happens to be a Netserver LH3r), and putting them back afterwards. Booting of the cd gives the same error. What does the error: "(noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered" actually mean ? What is FreeBSD actually complaining about ? I would assume that these HP servers (we have inhereted a few of them) would use the same type of hardware. The server I'm trying to install this on is a HP cluster server which has an external Raid Storage (which is currently disconnected from the servers). The servers themselves are HP Netserver LH3r's. The standalone server I used to do the install on is also a HP Netserver LH3r. The only noticeable difference between the standalone server and the server in the cluster is that the standalone server has a single processor and the cluster servers are dual processor. I've removed the SCSI card which is used to connect the server to the external Raid Storage and the installation still gives the same error. Now I could start to think that the hardware might be busted, but these servers were still running Redhat 7.1 a few days ago. If I want to try using the NCR driver (mentioned below), How would I go about doing that ? What else could I try. Maybe if I understood the error((noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered) a little better, I could try a few other things. hints/tips/anything appreciated. Another weird thing I noticed: - While another guy was installing FreeBSD on an HP pizzabox he also got this error: "(noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered", but it continued to boot and he was able to install the box. hmmmmm ? e. On Tuesday 24 June 2003 20:23, you wrote:> On 2003-06-24 15:33 +0200, Etienne Ledoux <etiennel@datapro.co.za> wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a HP Cluster Server. But when I boot > > with the CD's ( 4.4, 4.8 & 5.0 ), it will boot all the way upto "Wait 15 > > seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and then it immedialty give the > > following message: > > > > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. > > (noperiph:sym1:0:-1:-1):SCSI BUS reset delivered. > > > > After this the machine is basically unresponsive/dead. > > > > Any idea what could be causing this and what I could do to fix it ? > > Depending on the SCSI chip you may want to try the NCR driver > instead of the SYM driver. (The SYM driver is an enhanced > version of the NCR driver, but I've heard before, that the NCR > driver may work in (the extremely few) situation where the SYM > driver fails). > > Please send a boot message log and complete error messages and > I'll see whether they help ... > > Regards, STefan