On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:41:25PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> The problem is that you cant *not* get dangerously-dedicated mode. Our
> boot1 has got a dangerously-dedicated fdisk table unconditionally compiled
> in. You can fix it so that it doesn't crash stuff, but we still shouldn't
> be forci
:> > > There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD disks.
:> >
:> > Which controllers have this bug? I've got a whole bunch of 7880 and 79xx
:> > controllers with disks running in DD mode and never have had this problem.
:>
:> Happens to me on L440GX+ boards.
:
:Also happens
Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
>
> > > There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD disks.
> >
> > Which controllers have this bug? I've got a whole bunch of 7880 and 79xx
> > controllers with disks running in DD mode and never have had this p
Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote:
>
> > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
> > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
> > I reboot.
>
> Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode.
>
> There is a bug in Adaptec BI
> > > There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD disks.
> >
> > Which controllers have this bug? I've got a whole bunch of 7880 and 79xx
> > controllers with disks running in DD mode and never have had this problem.
>
> Happens to me on L440GX+ boards.
Also happens on IBM N
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD disks.
>
> Which controllers have this bug? I've got a whole bunch of 7880 and 79xx
> controllers with disks running in DD mode and never have had this problem.
Happens to me on L440
Doug White wrote:
| On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote:
|
| > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
| > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
| > I reboot.
|
| Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode.
|
| There is a bug in Adaptec B
On 16-Nov-01 Mike Smith wrote:
>> I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online
>> tips & references) but John Baldwin convinced me otherwise :-)
>
> The evidence suggests that my original analysis is correct:
>
>> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to
>> the A
> I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online
> tips & references) but John Baldwin convinced me otherwise :-)
The evidence suggests that my original analysis is correct:
> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to
> the AIC-7896 SCSI BIOS v2.20s1B1
...
> cs=c800
John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > SUMMARY:
> > The boot disk (ad0 in attachment) is not the problem.
> > There are two other IBM SCSI disks attached to two Adaptec cards.
> > Its these other two SCSI disks-da0,da1 which are empty and
> > whose disklabels I played with. These cause a BTX error if
> > the
On 16-Nov-01 Sandeep Joshi wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Mike Smith wrote:
>> The only real solution is to hot-plug
>> the disks, camcontrol rescan, then dd zeroes over the heads of the disks
>> and then re-lable them safely.
>
> Yep, that method works for now.
>
> I was hoping its easy enough to cr
Mike,
Mike Smith wrote:
> The only real solution is to hot-plug
> the disks, camcontrol rescan, then dd zeroes over the heads of the disks
> and then re-lable them safely.
Yep, that method works for now.
I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online
tips & references)
> Doug Write wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote:
>
> > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
> > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
> > I reboot.
>
> Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode.
>
> There is a bug in Adaptec B
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote:
> I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
> I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
> I reboot.
Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode.
There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD
> I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
> I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
> I reboot.
The most likely cause of this is that you're messing up the disks to the
point that your BIOS (probably your SCSI controller BIOS) is crashing when
it tries to read them.
On 16-Nov-01 Sandeep Joshi wrote:
> I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
> I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
> I reboot.
>
> They dont occur if I disconnect those disks. They occur
> even after I rewrite those labels. Its not dedicated mode
> or whatever
I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now
I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time
I reboot.
They dont occur if I disconnect those disks. They occur
even after I rewrite those labels. Its not dedicated mode
or whatever now..
I am currently running 4.4-REL.
I am wil
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