Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:16:31 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Sandeep Joshi <sandeepj@research.bell-labs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" Message-ID: <nospam-1005977791.56540@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0111161133390.44246-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> of Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:34:31 PST References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0111161133390.44246-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: | On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote: | | > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now | > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time | > I reboot. | | Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode. | | There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD disks. This may be true for some Adaptec controllers, but is certainly not true for all of them. I run a mixture of SCSI and IDE disks which have always been dangerously dedicated since day 1 (which is around 10 years ago). All my SCSI disks have always run on Adaptec controllers of various models and not one has had any kind of problem. That doesn't mean that all Adaptec controllers like DD disks, but it certainly shows that some are comfortable with them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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