From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Aug 3 6:47:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utcorp.net (x-montana.utcorp.com [146.145.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F9037B72E for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kseel@utcorp.com) Received: from [146.145.135.17] (helo=utcorp.com) by mail.utcorp.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13KLJ6-00032E-00 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 03 Aug 2000 09:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: <39897BC2.3C8E4048@utcorp.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:03:46 -0400 From: Kurt Seel Organization: dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with sysinstall seeing LVD drives Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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: 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: 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message