From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri May 24 13:43:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25616 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 13:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA25609 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 13:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id WAA18569 ; Fri, 24 May 1996 22:42:06 +0200 (METDST) Received: from tom.biomath.jussieu.fr (tom) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Fri, 24 May 1996 22:41:59 +0100 Received: by tom.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b8/jf930126+af940329(tom+uucp)) at Fri, 24 May 1996 22:41:58 +0100 From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet) Message-Id: <199605242141.AA18880@tom.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: How to send "start unit" to disk during boot? To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 22:41:58 +0100 (WET) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jaye Mathisen" at May 24, 96 11:53:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Well, the adaptec bios will send a start unit if you set it up that way in > the ^A stuff, which seems the simplest, unless I missed something > previous. You did :-) The Adaptec BIOS will only send a start command if it is configured to remain resident (sounds stupid to me, but that's the way it is). I want to maximize upper memory for DOS usage (yuck) so my AHA2940 is configured without BIOS => no start unit. J"org, I promise I will attempt to figure out what goes wrong in the driver with RZ disks as soon as I manage to get a reliable machine from my vendor. First motherboard gave "cc1 got signal 11" when doing intensive SCSI I/O, the newer one just plains reboot without a message when swapping occurs (or it is intensive graphics I/O ?) *sigh* Again, thanks for your time, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]