From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Sep 15 3:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.chuckr.org (picnic.chuckr.org [216.254.96.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D4737B43C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.chuckr.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8FAJNC15822; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:19:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:19:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: David Bushong , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de Subject: Re: Adaptec 21960 In-Reply-To: <20000914235822.A83263@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message