From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 15 03:29:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA09712 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 03:29:11 -0800 Received: from ibmPCUG.CO.UK (mmdf@Alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK [192.68.174.71]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA09699 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 03:29:07 -0800 From: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK Received: by alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK id aa18968; 15 Feb 95 11:28 GMT Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK id aa18794; 15 Feb 95 11:21 GMT Subject: Waiting for SCSI devices to settle? To: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:20:21 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1388 Message-ID: <9502151120.aa13247@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Firstly I have just installed FreeBSD, and it was a breeze. Great! Now, I have already moved onto the 2.1.0-Development, (the second feb snapshot) soley because of our SCSI controller. Hardware in use: Intel P90 with 32MB RAM 522MB IDE boot disk with PCI 32-data path D-Link 220 Ethernet Card ISA Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card 2.1GB SCSI-2 disk There seems to be an intermittent problem on boot-up. A high proportion of boots, say, 4 out of 5, result in the system hanging after it finds the pci hardware and scsi controller, and says "Waiting for SCSI devices to settle" after 5 secs or so the Adaptec controller light stays permanently on, which I am told is a bad sign. The system hangs like that indefinitely, (well I waited 30 mins anyway:-). Yet, sometimes, it boots ok and there is only a 2-3 sec gap after the Waiting For message; the drive is found as sd0 and the splendour of FreeBSD awaits usage. What could this be down to? Remote reboots are a distinct possibilty :-) and having to repeatedly power-cycle the machine for a "good" boot is not something that we can do remotely yet. As an aside we want to use this machine as a USENET machine running INN, anyone with any experience of this? I know the port exists but anyone using it in anger? I could not get the 1st Feb Snapshot to work at all with the scsi disk. Thanks, Jake Dias PC User Group Support