Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:24:01 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@cydonia.net> To: Andrew Sinclair <syncman@ihug.com.au> Cc: Travis Leuthauser <travis@bbipmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Grrrr Multiple SCSI cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102072319390.10208-100000@core.cydonia.net> In-Reply-To: <01020811285000.00859@viper.syncnet.dynodns.net>
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For the archives and for my own humiliation , to complete this thread...
Turns out the array cases I have are at fault. Found a work around and all
is now well. Not a thing to do with Adaptec, FreeBSD or the MotherBoard.
Thanks for all the tips, all are good things to know regardless.
Thanks.
Keith
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Andrew Sinclair wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2001 01:39, you wrote:
> > Have you checked the Adaptec site for some information? If I remember
> > correctly, the last time I attempted to use multiple 2940's in the same
> > box, there was something that had to be done to the cards themselves to
> > make them live happily together.
> >
> > Travis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Keith Woodman
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:24 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Grrrr Multiple SCSI cards
> >
> >
> > I'm having a heck of a time getting three scsi cards to live
> > comfortably together. Is there some trick to having multiple scsi cards
> > in the same system that I'm unaware of? I've searched the handbook as
> > well as freebsddiary and cruised dejanews for info to no avail.
> > I've got 3 2940UW controllers, just flashed the bios on all of them to
> > the same version. Every one of them boots fine individualy but not if I
> > put them all in at once. It eventualy will boot and mount all the
> > drives but only after crashing and halting and resetting the scsi
> > busses a couple times right after the "waiting 15 seconds for scsi
> > devices to settle"
> >
> > HAAALLPP !!
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
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> > | Keith Woodman |
> > | keith@cydonia.net (primary) |
> > | keith@telestream.com (secondary) |
> > | www.cydonia.net |
> > | /^^~~~~~~^^\ |
> > |
> > | | O O | |
> > | | ? | |
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> >
> Try disabling the BIOS on two of your Host Bus Adaptors (or all of them
> if you happen to boot off an IDE device). This may be confusing your
> system. You can set this in the Adaptec configuration utility at boot
> time.
>
> If your system still doesn't work, Now would also be a good time to make
> sure your busses are set up correctly (cabling, LVD terminators, ID's
> etc). I figure crosstalk may be an issue with 3 busses running parallel
> to each other (though I can't say for sure as I haven't used more than 1
> Host Bus Adaptor in any of my systems).
>
> You could also try Gary Field's SCSI Info Central
> http://www.scsifaq.org/scsifaq.html
> --
>
> - Syncman
>
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