Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:49:58 +0100 (CET) From: Michel Lavondes <fox@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI device probe slow/frozen, AHA2940U2W (LVD/SE side???) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991212000152.838A-100000@localhost.wanadoo.fr>
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Hi, I'm trying to install a new SCSI card (Adaptec 2940U2W), a new SCSI disk, and FreeBSD 3.3 (from the CDROM) on a machine that's currently running 2.2.6 and using a 2940AU. Machine currently has 1 SCSI disk and 1 IDE disk. When booting from the 3.3 installer floppy with only the current SCSI disk online, with either the old or the new SCSI card, everything will go fine. With the new disk present, the boot process will apparently get very slow when probing (or perhaps stuck - I let it sit 10 minutes after the last message) and complain about parity errors and timeouts (exact messages available upon request). I formatted and surface-tested the new disk using the embedded (on the new card) utility and everything apparently went fine. As far as I can tell, everything is properly terminated and there are no ID conflicts. I tried booting with the new disk only, thinking that perhaps the old one was too slow or otherwise caused the problem, to no avail. I haven't tried, and will probably try while waiting for an answer: - Installing a lesser OS on the new disk and see what happens (to rule out basic disk/card/bus problems that the formatting wouldn't spot); - Installing 3.3 on the existing disk; - Kicking and swearing at the machine, the OS, the documentation, and the general unfairness of life. :-) advTHANKSance. -- Weapon safety tip: "Before shooting yourself in the foot, take your foot out of your mouth." --Leslie Burgess To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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