Damon Hammis wrote:

> The jumpers are set wrong on the card.  I had the exact same problem with
> an aha-1542 and aha-1540 card recently.  The docs on the jumpers that you
> can get on Adaptec's site are kind of cryptic, but the card will work once
> you get the jumpers placed correctly.
>
> Currently I have mine running at irq 9, drq 5 and my jumpers are setup
> like this:
>
> J5 pin 8 jumpered pin 9 the jumper is on one pin
> J9 pins 2, 6, and 9 are jumpered.
>
> I have that configuration running on two systems now working great.  Let
> me know how it goes for ya.
>
> --Damon
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Robert Small wrote:
>
> > I installed an Adaptec AHA-1542 controller in my system tonight, and
> > hooked up a Sony SDT-5000 tape drive.
> >
> > When I try to boot into FreeBSD (5.0-20000511-CURRENT FreeBSD
> > 5.0-20000511-CURRENT #4: Thu Jul 6 20:31:41 CDT 2000) I receive:
> >
> > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle down
> > (approximately 30-45 seconds later)
> > (Probe0:aha0:0:0:0) CCB 0xc782c508
> > (Probe0:aha0:0:0:0) CCB 0xc782c508
> > aha0: aha_cmd: Timeout waiting for adapter idle
> > ahainitmboxes: Initialization command failed
> > aha0 no longer in timeout
> > (Probe6:aha0:0:6:0) CCB 0xc782c508
> > (Probe6:aha0:0:6:0) CCB 0xc782c508
> > aha0: aha_cmd: Timeout waiting for adapter idle
> > ahainitmboxes: Initialization command failed
> > aha0 no longer in timeout
> >
> > And it keeps repeating.  I had to remove the card to boot into FreeBSD.
> > The card recognizes the tape drive.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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Ok after further investigation, I can get the system to recognize the card,

aha0 at port-0x130-0x133 irq 9 drq 5 on isa0
aha0: AHA-1542CF FW Rev. F.0 (ID=45) SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 16 CCBs

but when it does, I get all of these errors

 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle down
 (approximately 30-45 seconds later)
 (Probe0:aha0:0:0:0) CCB 0xc782c508
 (Probe0:aha0:0:0:0) CCB 0xc782c508
 aha0: aha_cmd: Timeout waiting for adapter idle
 ahainitmboxes: Initialization command failed
 aha0 no longer in timeout
 (Probe6:aha0:0:6:0) CCB 0xc782c508
 (Probe6:aha0:0:6:0) CCB 0xc782c508
 aha0: aha_cmd: Timeout waiting for adapter idle
 ahainitmboxes: Initialization command failed
 aha0 no longer in timeout

and after 30-45 minutes the system will finally get finished probing and give
me a login prompt.

So it's not an IRQ problem, in fact, the only way I can make the system
boot-up quickly is to make it share an IRQ.  On boot-up, it recognizes and
lists the tape drive, but when it comes to probing, it's no joy.

Any ideas/suggestions/hints?

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