From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 12 04:38:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA14234 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 04:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from krondor.cpn.org.au (slip3.tas.gov.au [147.109.237.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA14229 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 04:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from krondor.cpn.org.au (krondor.cpn.org.au [172.16.1.1]) by krondor.cpn.org.au (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA18194; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:37:52 GMT Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:37:51 +0000 () From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cpn@krondor.cpn.org.au To: jurriaan cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital Enterprise SCSC drive problems In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970512122859.0073733c@mail.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 May 1997, jurriaan wrote: > 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 > Thanks for the info :) cheers, Carey Nairn