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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:33:49 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 2940 B channel? 
Message-ID:  <200001292133.NAA00750@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:19:42 PST." <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000129121139.4083B-100000@roble2.roble.com> 

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>I've got a FreeBSD 3.4 system with a 2940U2W and SCSI 3 hard drive
>attached to the A channel.  This setup runs great until I attach a CDRW
>drive (YAMAHA CRW4416S) to channel B.   The 2nd device causes it to
>hang just before the login prompt.  The Adaptec BIOS sees the CDRW and
>maps it to ID#4 but even with the trasfer rate set to 5MBPS the system
>will hang:
>
>  fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>  fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
>  wdreset: error1: 0x25
>  wdreset: error1: 0x25
>  wdc0 not found at 0x1f0
>  lnc0 not found at 0x280
>  vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
>  npx0 on motherboard
>  npx0: INT 16 interface
>  (probe4:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0xa - timed out in command phase, SEQADDR == 0x15d
>  (probe4:ahc0:0:4:0): BDR message in message buffer
>  (probe4:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0xa - timed out in command phase, SEQADDR == 0x15d
>  (probe4:ahc0:0:4:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b
>  ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 11 SCBs aborted
>
>Has anyone come across this and, if so, is there a fix?

   The 2940U2W is a single channel controller, so there really isn't a "B"
channel. I think what you must be refering to is the single-ended connector.
Perhaps the termination isn't set properly on either the controller or the
drive?

-DG

David Greenman
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