Boot hangs on mpt0: failing to detect tape drive

[Matthew Jacob]

Lot's of problems here.... When you say "had no luck with BIOS"- that
means you can see it no problem in the LSI Config utility?

First- is the tape drive powered on?

Also- try this experiment: boot w/o the tape hooked up. If all is
well, connect the tape and do, as root, 'camcontrol rescan all'.



On 3/5/06, Andrew MacLeod <a.macleod at ballarat.edu.au> wrote:
> Currently trying to install freebsd on a new ACER Altos R710 server.
> Having problems on bootup where it seems not able to detect the Internal
> Sony AIT-2 Turbo tape drive. System hangs at mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] for
> five minutes then several messages like the following:
>
> mpt0: Soft Reset Failed: ack timeout
> mpt0: WARNING - Failed Hard Reset
> mpt0: failed to reset device
> mpt0: soft reset failed: device not running.
> IOcmpt: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 adapter.....
>
> When I disconnect the tape drive from the SCSI card system boots fine.
> I am running Freebsd 6.0-Release with a slightly modified GENERIC Kernel
> to enable SMP and PF.
> I am not a hardward expert but I will try to explain the setup of the
> system as best I can. The server is a dual xeon with 5x73GB SCSI hard
> discs which we have setup in a combination of RAID 1 for the operating
> system and RAID 5 for the data. These run on an LSILogic 2 channel SCSI
> card.  The system has an identical 2nd LSILogic SCSI card which the
> vendor assured us was needed to run the Tape Drive. However the
> Motherboard also has onboard SCSI support and the tape drive is
> connected to this. The tape drive has a terminator attached. We have
> attempted to attach the tape drive to both the secondary channel on the
> primary SCSI card and both channels on the secondary one and the system
> hangs on SCSI initialisation prior to reaching freebsd. We have had no
> luck altering settings in the LSILogic configuration utility or in the
> system BIOS.
>
> Any assistance would be much appreciated as my next step is to try an
> alternate O/S to see if this is hardware or system related.
>
> Kind Regards
>             Andrew
>
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