Re: Install failure SCSI

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

There seems to be an issue with the 7880 and the ahc driver. If I recall it
correctly OpenBSD 3.1 works just fine.
I think somebody is also in the process of fixing this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "LULANI Olsi" <olulani@amc.al>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 07:06
Subject: Install failure SCSI


> I am using a Adaptec SCSI 7880 controller. My system has been using RedHat
> 7.2 but due to instability problems I decided to switch to OpenBSD. I was
> using OpenBSD 3.2. The system boots from the CD, initialises the disks,
> writes the disk labels without problems, initialises the partitions,
> configures the network and than asks if I am ready to start the
> installation. I answer yes and the system than starts to decompress and
> install  the .tgz files. A few seconds later the kernel generates a couple
> of SCSI errors, prints a series of numbers like 310, 311, 312 .. etc and
> finally it syncs the discs and reboots the system.
>
> I repeated the installation and found the disk partitions to be existing
on
> disk but the SCSI errors again come up and the installation got
interrupted
> again.
>
> Any clues about this situation or how to recover from it if possible. I do
> not want to go back to RedHat.
>
>      Sincerely
> Mr. Olsi Lulani