From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 17 10:39:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from caspian.plutotech.com (caspian.plutotech.com [206.168.67.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC3537B424 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by caspian.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA14552; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:06:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from gibbs) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:06:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009160706.BAA14552@caspian.plutotech.com> From: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Chuck Robey Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 21960 X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.scsi In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/5.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you wrote: > > Maybe you shouldn't read too much into that one report, Ken. I have a > different set of symptoms. I can talk to the drive (the IBM 18G > Ultra160), my problem is that I can't coax it into booting. Anything > short of booting (disklabelling, newfs'ing, mounting, running as a > secondary drive) works fine. I do happen to run current, tho. Are you able to load the loader? This smells like a BIOS issue. If you can tell me what MB, MB BIOS Rev, and card BIOS rev you have, I can try to find out if there are any known BIOS issues that might explain your symptoms. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message