From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 16:57:17 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 4A58937B401 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 16:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D4F43FAF for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 16:57:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h4ANvEYr093252; Sun, 11 May 2003 09:57:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.17])h4ANvDYm030649; Sun, 11 May 2003 09:57:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 09:57:13 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <0E857772-8331-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> Message-ID: <20030511095316.O30401-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:57:17 -0000 On Sat, 10 May 2003, Doug Hardie wrote: > 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. Turn off termination on the card (using bios uitility). Make sure both the disk and the dlt drive have termination enabled. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/