From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 28 23:55:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA19020 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:55:57 -0700 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA19012 for ; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:55:47 -0700 Received: from freebsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24959; Mon, 29 May 95 08:55:35 +0200 Received: by freebsd.first.gmd.de (HAA21616); Mon, 29 May 1995 07:59:01 +0200 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199505290559.HAA21616@freebsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Problems when adding a 3rd SCSI drive To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 07:59:00 +0159 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <2fc92cb14317002@maroon.tc.umn.edu> from "pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu" at May 28, 95 09:08:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 690 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Current hardware installed: > > Adaptec 2842VL SCSI controller ID 7 > Seagate ST1230N disk drive ID 0 > Seagate ST31230N disk drive ID 1 > Archive 2150S tape drive ID 2 > Rodime 3085S disk drive ID 5 <---- this is the drive I'm trying to add Try to set it up in the Adaptec BIOS as a slow 5Mbyte drive and async only. The problems you are seeing may be caused from mixing very old cruft ( Rodime, SCSI I? ) with new fast drives Seagate ST31230N is a fast, synchronous 10Mbyte drive. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe