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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:19:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        David Bushong <david@bushong.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 21960
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009150611020.403-100000@picnic.chuckr.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000914235822.A83263@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> > Nice paperweight.
> 
> What version of FreeBSD are y'all (David, Chuck and Andreas) using?
> 
> Two folks in this thread have said they're using -stable, and have
> problems.
> 
> Justin made a couple of rather large changes to the ahc driver in July, but
> hasn't merged them to -stable yet.
> 
> Have any of you tried -current?  (I'd recommend something before the SMP
> merge, and I wouldn't recommend it if you've got a production box.)

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.

I'm not even really sure it's the controller ... it could be the IBM
drive, but this seems to be the only thing I can do.  What with all the
other reported problems (and all the stuff I've tried), I don't see I have
another option.  It's the uncertainty of it that kinda gripes me, I could
well be wasting more cash on the Tekram.

If you have another Ultra160 drive, and you want to verify things, I
wouldn't mind sending the 29160 to you.  It doesn't seem to be helping me
any right now.


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Chuck Robey             | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org| electronics, communications, and signal processing.

New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary.
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