Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 14:47:55 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adaptec SCSI controller problem Message-ID: <0E857772-8331-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101513450.20983-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>
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I have a system with a Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter controller. The original configuration had 1 disk internal and nothing external. The external connector had nothing plugged into it. All worked fine. However, I tried to add a DLT drive to the external connector. On boot, the system hung because it couldn't find the disk. Its supposed to boot off the SCSI drive. Running the adaptec scsi utilities it found both the internal disk and the external DLT drive. The disk has id 0, the DLT 5 and the controller 7. So, I removed the cable from the system as I just didn't have time to address that issue at the moment. However, it still hung at the same point in the boot. No sequence of disconnection of cards, disks, connectors etc. would bring back the boot capability. It consistently gets an error message that there is no terminator. So, I added a terminator on the external jack. It now boots properly. Something has obvioulsy changed but I can't figure out what it is. I still need to use the DLT - with the drive, and I need to return the terminator as its borrowed. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks.
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