From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 17:49:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A6715D09 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA23012; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk Cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: Adaptec 2920C takes 15 minutes to boot up In-Reply-To: <37369A2A.7755B9EB@trltech.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2920C with (I think) three devices > attached to it. Does anyone understand what's going on, and is there a > switch or option that can be used to optimize the boot up procedure. I would double check the Termination on everything. If something is auto-terminated in the wrong place it could cause this problem. You may also want to look at a different SCSI card. Anything with a 20 in it from Adaptec is meant to run CDROMs and scanners, not harddrives. Granted there are people running them without problems... but... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message