On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:42:19PM +0200, Vincent wrote:
> Salut ! :)
> 
> I've received today, for a limited amount of time (2 weeks) an HP xw9300
> workstation (dual Opteron).
> 
> When I try to install NetBSD on it, it appears the SCSI bus works at best not at
> all :) I have thousand of "command timeout" like this :
> 
> probe(mpt0:0:*:0) command time out
> mpt0 recovered from command timeout.
> 
> Idem for mpt1. Idem for initial bus probe. Any probe takes forever (30 secondes)
> between each LUN.  At some point, the disk sd0 and sd1 are detected, but then it
> continues by timeouting when accessing sd0 and sd1.
> 
> It is as if the SCSI bus were clocked at one pulse/minute.
> 
> Of course, sysinst does not detect any valid disk, and quits.
> 
> Any clue ?

Looks like interrupt routing issue (the driver isn't getting interrupts).
Try playing with the PCIBIOS/ACPI options.

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