From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 17 04:00:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA05962 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 04:00:08 -0800 Received: from ibmPCUG.CO.UK (mmdf@Alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK [192.68.174.71]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA05950 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 04:00:05 -0800 From: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK id aa14514; 17 Feb 95 11:23 GMT Subject: Re: Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:23:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org, jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK In-Reply-To: <199502162323.PAA24947@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 16, 95 03:23:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 979 Message-ID: <9502171123.aa18239@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK tells me that he tried to booting with 950210-SNAP, but the > > adapter does not seem to boot all the time. Maybe you can ask him about it. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Yao-Wen Stephen Tsai 2/16/95 > I should have a new version of the drive availible sometime this weekend. > I will contact both of you then. Thanks. FYI there do seem to be 2 hurdles in the boot procedure. (using an Adaptec 2940) Sometimes, the hanging occurs immediately after the "settle" message. And at other times, it pauses for the 15 seconds at "settle" but then hangs after the next 2 lines: ahc0 targ 0 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI2 ahc0 targ 0 lun 0: the same behaviour also occurs with a Micropolis 2117 1.7GB drive If the sd0 line containing the drive geometry is displayed then I know it is a successful boot. Successful boots are few and far between, but when it works, it works! Regards, Jake Dias PC User Group