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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
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