From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 18:21:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21736 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:21:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rigel.cs.pdx.edu (root@rigel.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.220.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21676 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotan@cs.pdx.edu) Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (root@sirius.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.220.13]) by rigel.cs.pdx.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA20198; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rotan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sirius.cs.pdx.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA29828; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805220121.SAA29828@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> To: jack cc: robert t tan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rotan@cs.pdx.edu Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 controller In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 01:02:21 EDT." Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:21:14 -0700 From: robert t tan Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Drive is on the Wide cable on the controller, and the cdrom on the regula r >> SCSI cable. Terminator is set ON on cdrom. >> >> I am able to run DOS fine, as long as I don't try to install the drivers >> needed for the cdrom. I talked some hours to techs support that supported >> the controler, but couldn't come up with any help so far. > Sounds like your termination is hosed. Make sure that both the > CD and the harddrive have their terminators enabled. Go into the > controller setup (Ctrl-A at boot) and set termination OFF for the > low 8 bits and ON for the high 8 bits. > > That should solve both your FreeBSD and DOS problems. hi jack, thanks for your reply, however, LOW OFF/HIGH ON, was set in the controller setup. Also pretty sure cdrom, as well as hard drive, are terminated. - rotan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message