Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:26:21 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Aaron Benner <abenner@condor.physics.montana.edu> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AIC7880P Message-ID: <199801080326.UAA11199@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980107153011.4683B-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980107153011.4683B-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu> you wrote: > I've got a problem, and I need to know if I sliced hairs too thin. > We recently aquired a pair of seagate barracuda 9 gig Ultra Wide scsi > drives, and an adaptec 2940UW (AIC7880P controller chip). You should send these kinds of bug reports to the SCSI list. > I need to know if, as the evidence seems to support, there is enough > difference between the AIC7880 and the AIC7880P for the Ultra Wide > controller to be incompatible with FreeBSD. They both work just fine with FreeBSD. > The current symptom is a hang at the kernel probe, the kernel recognizes > the card as a 2940 with a wide channel, reports the right card status, and > then the "waiting for SCSI devices to settle" just sits there like a lump. Sounds like a termination or cabling problem. Boot with the -v flag and write down everything that gets spit out during the aic7xxx probe. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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