From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jan 7 19:28:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA18757 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA18752 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id UAA11199; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:26:21 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:26:21 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199801080326.UAA11199@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Aaron Benner Subject: Re: AIC7880P Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article 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 ===========================================