From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 6:11:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.one.net (mail3.one.net [206.112.192.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC27337B402 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip-216-23-54-58.adsl.one.net ([216.23.54.58] EHLO arrakis.desert-power.org ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 30724]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <352014-18756>; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:09:56 -0500 Received: (from mwithers@localhost) by arrakis.desert-power.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA03886; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:08:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwithers) From: "Mark B. Withers" To: "Gerald T. Freymann" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Getting my 25G Seagate ST423451W to wake up! Message-ID: <20010120080854.A3857@arrakis.desert-power.org> References: <20010117212738.D898@raggedclown.net> <3A6601FB.B0ECBAEA@eCoNeed.com> <017f01c080c5$f1669b40$0f10a7d1@bob> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <017f01c080c5$f1669b40$0f10a7d1@bob>; from freymann@eagle.ca on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:41:45PM -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:09:55 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My first thought would be the scsi drive (the one who's model number ends in a 51). Do you have another controller to test it on? Maybe there's a faq on the site that supports the controller? Assuming that you received the drivers from there. Mark On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:41:45PM -0500, Gerald T. Freymann wrote: > My boss bought three Seagate ST423451W SCSI hard drives for massive storage > needs. > > I was just beefing up our tape backup FreeBSD box (running amanda) and > thought it would be nice to replace our small 2G drive with one of the > larger 25G drives. > > The original boot drive (and the 2G drive) uses the 58-pin ribbon cable. > Uh-oh. The new drives use the 68-pin ribbon cable. Now I remember why I > didn't replace the tape drive a few years earlier (we didn't have any other > drives that used the 58-pin connector) and I have an external tape drive on > the outside connector. > > No worry, I've been rebuilding our servers for a while now so I just > grabbed a 4G ST34572W and figured I'd mate it with the ST423451W and be off > to the races! > > Got a lovely ASUS P/I P6NP5 motherboard and an ASUS PCI-SC875 SCSI > Controller. I flashed the motherboard BIOS 'cause it was old. I did grab > the latest BIOS for the SCSI Controller but I don't think it actually > flashed as the BIOS appeared update to date. > > My problem is, the SCSI controller just says "drive not ready" on the big > ST423451W drive. I hooked up it solo (with terminator cap ON) with no other > devices and same thing. The controller "see it" by name but during the boot > process, you never see the cylinders/heads/sectors numbers that I see with > the other drives. > > I've tried different connectors on the SCSI cable (which is brand new). > I've tinkered a tad in the SCSI Bios Set-Up, eventually just reloading > factory defaults, but still, all I get is "drive not ready" > > Any idea what I'm missing here? If I boot into FreeBSD you can see messages > where it's trying to "wake up" the larger drive and after a few minutes a > few lines pop up on the console saying the drive is not responding. > > I realize this doesn't have anything to do with FreeBSD, but perhaps some > Scsi people may have some feedback. > > -Gerry > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message