Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:07:10 -0800 From: rsoles@SIRIUS.COM (Roger L Soles) To: Plyaskin Sergey <splyaski@cmp.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Adaptec 1740 problem Message-ID: <9501191801.AA17325@SIRIUS.COM>
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I'd guess it's a termination problem.
1 - make sure you're running the 1740 in enhanced mode (eisa config
if necessary)
2 - make sure you've got each physical end of the chain terminated with
no termination in the middle
3 - consider using a terminator pack rather than the termination built
into any device (if the host adapter is at the end of the chain
it should be ok to use it's termination).
4 - if nothing else works, slow down the maximum transfer rate for those
devices (using your eisa config)
At 09:49 AM 1/19/95 PST, Plyaskin Sergey wrote:
>
>I've been running FreeBSD 2.0 on a Gateway 2000 486SX25 ISA machine with no
>problems for about 2 months. It has an Adaptec 1542CF SCSI host adapter and
>one external 1Gb SCSI HD.
>
>Now, I have problems installing FreeBSD on a Mitac 486DX33 PC with EISA bus.
>It has EISA Adaptec 1740 SCSI host adapter and 2 SCSI hard disks. Under DOS,
>everything worked fine. I decided to get rid of DOS and install FreeBSD. I
>deleted all patitions on the disks using fdisk and started installation.
>When starting the computer, I get a message indicating that both HDs are
>detected:
>
>SCSI ID0 Installed
>SCSI ID1 Installed
>
>however, FreeBSD finds only the adapter but not the disks. I tried both
>FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE and FreeBSD 2.0-950112SNAP. I also tried to set the
>adapter to both standard and enhanced mode (in standard mode it's detected
>as 1540.) I borrowed an Adaptec 1540 (ISA) from my friend, and the disks
>were detected by FreeBSD.
>
>Is that the problem with that particular 1740 adapter or EISA adapters in
>general or I do something wrong? I'm confused and would appreciate any
>help/hints.
>
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