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From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: Western Digital Enterprise SCSC drive problems
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:

> greetings all,
> 
> I have a small problem with som WD SCSI drives and was wondering if there
> are any known problems with them or any advice you could give me.
> 
> I have 3 of these drives connected to an Adaptec 2940AU controller and
> trying to install 2.2.1R.  During the boot sequence the SCSI BIOS gets the
> drives OK but when the FreeBSD probes start I get the following errors...
> 
> ahc0 <Adaptec 2940A Ultra SCSI Host adapter> rev 1 int a irq 10 on pci0:16
> ahc0: aic7860 Single channel, SCSI Id-7, 3 SCBs
> ahc0 board is not responding
> (ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timedout in datain phase, SCSISIGI==0x46
> SEQADDR==0x12c
> (ahc0:0:0): abort message in message buffer
> ahc0 board is not responding
> (ahc0:0:0): SCB 0x2 - timedout while recovery in progress
> (ahc0:0:0): "unknown unknown ????" type 13 fixed SCSI 0
> uk0 unknown device
> .....
> 
> Do I have 3 dodgy drives ??
> any clues, help or otherwise would be appreciated.  
> Thanks in advance
> 
> cheers,
> Carey Nairn
> 

I should also have mentioned...

I tested the setup with a known good drive (one that already had 2.2.1R
installed) and everything worked fine.  This really points at the drive
IMHO.

I have also tried varios jumper settings on the WD drives to no avail.

thanks again

Carey Nairn