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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:44:15 +0000
From:      John McLaughlin <John.McLaughlin@Acucobol.IE>
To:        Marcus Haebler <mh@muenster.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 2940UW and 7 disks results in bus resets 
Message-ID:  <199712161244.MAA21290@guinness.acucobol.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:15:13 %2B0100." <01BD0A13.E1B62930.mh@muenster.net> 

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 > Hi,

 > we just added a disk to our FreeBSD-2.2-stable (about 6 months old)
 > and are running into major problems with those 7 disks. The disks
 > are connected to an Adaptec 2940UW. Are there any known problems
 > with FreeBSD and the Adaptec 2940UW? A bus reset occurs every two
 > minutes. I just grabed part of the error messages out of tonights
 > daily report. It looks like that:

[snip] 

 > Did anybody run into similar problems? Help is needed urgently!
 > Termination etc. is definitly OK! Bus speed is down to 20MB/s.  Any
 > ideas?

	I had similar problems here, and it turned out to be power
problems to the disk (from the looks of it, unit 0). Try checking the
power connectors to make sure they're making good contact.

John

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