Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:01:15 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko) Cc: ad@psn.ie, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangs on external disks Message-ID: <199903052001.VAA01199@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199903051937.LAA27004@whistle.com> from Doug Ambrisko at "Mar 5, 99 11:37:42 am"
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As Doug Ambrisko wrote... > Andy Doran writes: > | I believe that this is an issue with CAM. I have a bunch of DEC RZ25 disks > | here which work fine with ULTRIX, NetBSD and Linux on several different > | machines. After upgrading from FreeBSD-2.2.6 to 3.0 (and -current) > | the system hangs on boot whenever an RZ25 is hooked up. This is with a > | crappy 'ol Adaptec 1542CP controller. > > Most DEC drives as shipped with DEC system do not spin up on power up > (for sure not in the era of the RZ25). I recall that some DEC drives > had a jumper to select spin up on power up but I don't think all of them RZ25 has a spinup jumper. Remove jumper 8 on J6 (for reference, jumper 5 & 7 should be left in) for spinup on powerup. > did. I think they was also a mode page switch. I also recall that the Yes, a vendor unique mode page setting. > 1542 BIOS had options to send the command to spin up on power up. Not all 1542, the 1542C can do it, the older ones don't IRRC. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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