From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 14:47:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75AAA37B401 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFA943F3F for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-200-243.rev.o1.com [66.81.200.243]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h4ALlteB027891 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 14:47:55 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Doug Hardie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <0E857772-8331-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Adaptec SCSI controller problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:47:57 -0000 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.