From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Oct 10 02:31:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA24916 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 02:31:28 -0700 Received: from hda.hydro.com (vkhdib01.hda.hydro.com [136.164.216.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA24911 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 02:31:13 -0700 Received: by hda.hydro.com id ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:30:39 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:30:39 +0100 From: Terje Thoegersen Message-Id: <199510100930.AAvkhdib0135113@hda.hydro.com> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510091023.AAvkhdib01123645@hda.hydro.com> (message from Terje Thoegersen on Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:23:01 +0100) Subject: Re: aha0: Bus dropped at unexpected time Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Lemme try this again.. This should teach me not to create mails with periods in column 1.. > I've got a disk here that I can't get to work with my controller; > almost anytime I access it I get this "bus dropped" message. Is there > something I can tweak to make it work? It does work a little bit; I can get > to the mode pages on the disk, was able to format it, (and with *lots* of > repetitions, fdisk and disklabel it), etc. > > disk: IBM 0663W2H > controller: aha1540B (an old one!) . . > > About two thirds of the time I get "Bus dropped at unexpected time" during > the probe; this one happened to work... The geometry reported is correct. > > Is this related to my antique aha1540? Hi! Old Adaptecs don't like IBM disks. Since you have the 1540B, there's an upgrade for the BIOS and Microcode available, which fixes the problem. See ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/ Regards, -Terje ____________________________________________________________________ Terje Thoegersen, Systems Consultant | terje.thogersen@hda.hydro.com Norsk Hydro a.s, Hydro Data | Tel : +47 2273 9298 P.O.Box 200, | Fax : +47 2273 9614 1321 Stabekk, Norway | Pager : 966 32801 --------------------------------------------------------------------