Supermicro X6DH8-G2 and SCSI timeouts

[Giovanni P. Tirloni]

Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  This motherboard has two Seagate Cheetah disks attached to channel A 
> and gives the following message when booting:
> 
>  ahd1: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 14 SCBs aborted.
> 
>  It continues for a long time until all SCBs timeout.
> 
>  ACPI is enabled but it doesn't change anything disabling it before 
> loading the kernel or in the BIOS.
> 
>  Any idea about what might be hapenning ? This is 5.4-STABLE.
> 

  Damn. I checked loader.conf and it was disabling ACPI. So I forced 
ACPI with the following:

   acpi_load="YES"
   hint.acpi.0.disabled="0"

  And booted normally without changing anything at the boot loader.

  Sorry about the inconvenience. And yes, it works and boots very fast.

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Giovanni P. Tirloni / gpt at tirloni.org / PGP: 0xD0315C26