Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?
On 20/11/2005 7:32 AM, Lukas Ertl wrote: It has nothing to do with the SCSI controller, it's all about the floppy drive. It seems like the fdc driver doesn't recognize that there's no disk in the drive and tries to access it on and on and on. As I said, disable the floppy drive in the BIOS (or even put a floppy into the drive), then the boot process goes on as usual. Indeed - I saw this just the other day on a purely Serial ATA/IDE system. Just after detecting the IDE disks, the system paused for about 60 seconds, with the floppy drive light coming on. After ~60sec it then continued without a problem. Slightly alarming, but apparently harmless... -Antony ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?
On 11/19/05, Jim Pingle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lukas Ertl wrote: > > On 11/9/05, Ingeborg Hellemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Fresh new ProLiant dl380 2 CPU/dual core > >>Fresh new FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE > >> > >> > >>During boot I arrive at > >> > >>da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > >>da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > >>da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > >>da0: 34727MB (71122560 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 8716C) > >> > >>then nothing happens for about 60 seconds and then everything proceedes as > >>usual (starting daemons, mounting NFS-disks etc.) > > > > > > I see this behaviour on my DL380s, too. I don't have a fix, but a > > workaround: disable the floppy drive in the BIOS. > > I also see this behavior, though I see it on a few systems which are all > Dual CPU PIII 800MHz. They each have different SCSI or RAID controllers (one > has an amr card, one has an mlx controller, and one I believe just had an > ahc controller. The motherboards all have Intel serverworks chipsets. > > These are all fresh installs of FreeBSD 6.0 (and updated to -STABLE). It > happens with GENERIC and with a lightly modified custom kernel (remove > unused cpu types, add smp) > > In each case, during this pause the floppy light is on solid, so I'm not > sure it has anything to do with the SCSI controller(s). It has nothing to do with the SCSI controller, it's all about the floppy drive. It seems like the fdc driver doesn't recognize that there's no disk in the drive and tries to access it on and on and on. As I said, disable the floppy drive in the BIOS (or even put a floppy into the drive), then the boot process goes on as usual. cheers, le ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?
Lukas Ertl wrote: > On 11/9/05, Ingeborg Hellemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Fresh new ProLiant dl380 2 CPU/dual core >>Fresh new FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE >> >> >>During boot I arrive at >> >>da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >>da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device >>da0: 135.168MB/s transfers >>da0: 34727MB (71122560 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 8716C) >> >>then nothing happens for about 60 seconds and then everything proceedes as >>usual (starting daemons, mounting NFS-disks etc.) > > > I see this behaviour on my DL380s, too. I don't have a fix, but a > workaround: disable the floppy drive in the BIOS. I also see this behavior, though I see it on a few systems which are all Dual CPU PIII 800MHz. They each have different SCSI or RAID controllers (one has an amr card, one has an mlx controller, and one I believe just had an ahc controller. The motherboards all have Intel serverworks chipsets. These are all fresh installs of FreeBSD 6.0 (and updated to -STABLE). It happens with GENERIC and with a lightly modified custom kernel (remove unused cpu types, add smp) In each case, during this pause the floppy light is on solid, so I'm not sure it has anything to do with the SCSI controller(s). For me, it goes like so: ... Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 17364MB (35561472 sectors) RAID 0 (optimal) amrd1: on amr0 amrd1: 34728MB (71122944 sectors) RAID 0 (optimal) sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! [long pause] Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a ... I haven't tried to time the pause, but I believe it was a different duration on each system. (Particularly long with a higher end Mylex card) For me it's just a minor annoyance, everything works fine otherwise. If anyone wants more information I can try to gather some next week when I'm back in the office. Jim ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?
On 11/9/05, Ingeborg Hellemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fresh new ProLiant dl380 2 CPU/dual core > Fresh new FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE > > > During boot I arrive at > > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 34727MB (71122560 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 8716C) > > then nothing happens for about 60 seconds and then everything proceedes as > usual (starting daemons, mounting NFS-disks etc.) I see this behaviour on my DL380s, too. I don't have a fix, but a workaround: disable the floppy drive in the BIOS. cheers, le ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"