Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:08:19 +0930 From: "Kerpal\" Moore <gropep_it@internode.on.net>"@smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI controller problem Message-ID: <3EBDB79B.2030106@internode.on.net> References: <0E857772-8331-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org>
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Is the cable faulty? You do have a termintor on the tape drive also, don't you? 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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