From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Sep 15 21:51:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A7D37B43E for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA96017; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:51:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:51:07 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Chuck Robey Cc: David Bushong , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de Subject: Re: Adaptec 21960 Message-ID: <20000915225107.A95990@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20000914235822.A83263@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:19:22AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:19:22 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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. Hmm, that's strange indeed. You're right, you likely have a different problem. > 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. Have you sent mail directly to Justin? If he hasn't responded to your questions here on the -scsi list, mail him directly. > 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. Justin would likely be able to do more with it than I, and he probably already has as many 29160s as he wants. It could be there's a problem with yours, though. In that case, it might do some good to send it to him to look at. Anyway, try asking him, he may have a clue about what might be going on. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message