From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 12 03:20:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA09979 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 03:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09961 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 03:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magigimmix.xs4all.nl (magigimmix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.25]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id MAA23016; Mon, 12 May 1997 12:19:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from default (drt01-23.dial.xs4all.nl [194.109.42.24]) by magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with SMTP id MAA06451; Mon, 12 May 1997 12:19:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970512122859.0073733c@mail.xs4all.nl> X-Sender: thunder7@mail.xs4all.nl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:29:38 +0200 To: Carey Nairn From: jurriaan Subject: Re: Western Digital Enterprise SCSC drive problems Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:32 PM 5/12/97 +0000, you wrote: >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... >> I have read that WD enterprise SCSI drives had some problems with an erlier firmware version (1.51) (sporadic write-errors) on an 2940 UW, and would not be recognised at all on a SYM8751SP adapter. The same magazine reported one month later that the newer firmware version 1.70 had no problems. I suggest you try to contact WD, and try to find out which firmware-version you have. Good luck, Jurriaan There are very few people who do not become more interesting when they stop talking.