freebsd stable - Feb 2007 - Loader hang

Hi *,
I recently installed 6.2 on a Supermicro P8SCT and I found that the loader 
would hang after a few seconds unless I disabled the Adaptec 29160's BIOS.

It also has a 3ware 8006-2LP (which I am booting off). The SCSI card only has 
a tape drive on it though so I'm surprised it would install a BIOS at all 
(after probing)

Interestingly the hang only occurred when booting the installed version - when 
booting from the CD it worked perfectly..

Anyone seen anything similar? Any suggestions for debugging? :)

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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:45:33 +1030
"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> mentioned:
> Hi *,
> I recently installed 6.2 on a Supermicro P8SCT and I found that the loader
> would hang after a few seconds unless I disabled the Adaptec 29160's
BIOS.
>
> It also has a 3ware 8006-2LP (which I am booting off). The SCSI card only
has
> a tape drive on it though so I'm surprised it would install a BIOS at
all
> (after probing)
>
> Interestingly the hang only occurred when booting the installed version -
when
> booting from the CD it worked perfectly..
>
That's because loader won't touch hadrdrives when booting from CD.
> Anyone seen anything similar? Any suggestions for debugging? :)
Have you tried to boot anything else (Linux, Windows, etc)? Probably,
the Host adapter's BIOS is broken, so try to update it to the latest
version.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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