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Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec 2940UW.
To: nordquist@platinum.com
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 12:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, george@cia-g.com, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199605241858.NAA24408@doh.vt.platinum.com> from "Brent J. Nordquist" at "May 24, 96 01:58:41 pm"
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> George Simunovich wrote:
> | During bootup the 2940UW gets detected.  Then waits for the SCSI devices
> | to settle.  While finding the devices, it just hangs with the HD led
> | on.  It doesn't hang on the same device everytime.  After several
> | boots it manages to completly boot only to hang after using it for
> | a while.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | I just did a sup and recompiled the kernel.  The problem is still there.
> 
> I also have the 2940UW.  I sup'ed -stable on May 5, and I've been
> having this problem ever since, too!
> 
> George Simunovich wrote:
> | Here is some more info that might prove helpful:
> | 
> | Intel Endevor II motherboard.
> | Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM video card.
> | ...
> 
> I also have a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM.  All my devices are on the
> internal narrow bus.
> 
> Rod Grimes wrote:
> | I recently experienced this problem, a quick work around is to turn off
> | the Ultra mode in the SCSI-Select BIOS settings.
> 
> In the Adaptec's setup, I've disabled wide for all SCSI ID's 0 through
> 7; I had to do this even to get 2.1.0-RELEASE to work with my Exabyte
> 4200i 4mm DAT drive.  Is that what you meant (disabling per SCSI ID),
> or is there some other global setting that I missed?

There is a global setting in the controller advanced feature settings
section.  This is seperate from the per device wide flags.

> I'll try some of the other hints and patches that Justin mentioned, and
> I'll let you know the results.

-- 
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