From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 20 16:40:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26948 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:40:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26755 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:39:37 GMT (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-36.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.36]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA12436; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:39:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA04391; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:39:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804202339.SAA04391@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, shocking@prth.pgs.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Narrow SCSI controllers, and using WIDE drives with them In-reply-to: Message from dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:17:02 PDT." <199804200717.AAA02451@math.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:39:31 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Strick writes: > It ought to work by default. If not, you may be able to tell the > host adapter via its BIOS interface to only do narrow transfers > with specific SCSI devices. That's sorta hard to do with a narrow controller as all I've seen are not capable of wide negotiations therefore its not an option. My 2940 (narrow with the 7860 chipset and BIOS 1.21) didn't like a wide drive that was attached. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message