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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:03:46 -0400
From:      Kurt Seel <kseel@utcorp.com>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problem with sysinstall seeing LVD drives
Message-ID:  <39897BC2.3C8E4048@utcorp.com>

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 Hi all.
 I have been having an awful time trying to put a pair of LVD
drives into a server. After much trouble with a pair of barracudas
with faulty write caches, I now have 2 IBM drives :

da28 at ahc2 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da28: <IBM DMVS18V 0100> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da28: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da28: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C)

da36 at ahc2 bus 0 target 8 lun 0
da36: <IBM DMVS18V 0100> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da36: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da36: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C)

 They are running on an adaptec 2940u2w:

ahc2: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 18 on pci0.18.0
ahc2: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs

 I can newfs the 'c' partition, and mount it. But sysinstall refuses
to see the drives. I know it is possible to do this by hand with command
line utils, but it has been many years now sense I have done this, I
wouldn't relish the idea.

 A friend told me he had this same trouble, he had IDE drives enabled,
he disabled them and it stopped. I have IDE drives, so I tried this, no
dice.

 It has been weeks I been fooling with this, drives being cross shipped,
waiting until after 5 (so as not to bother the programmers). I am
thinking of joining the french foreign legion soon.

--
 In theory, there is no difference between theory
and practice. In practice, however, there is.
 - Unknown





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