From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Mar 28 11:54:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA28997 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:54:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28989 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:54:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA16291; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:50:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA19516; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:50:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id UAA25713; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:30:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603281930.UAA25713@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DAT problems To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:30:48 +0100 (MET) Cc: knarf@camelot.de (Frank Bartels) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <4jdsbq$lqj@lancelot.camelot.de> from "Frank Bartels" at Mar 28, 96 12:15:06 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Bartels wrote: > So I bought a new machine: > > ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:9 > ahc0: aic7870 Ultra Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 255 SCBs > ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (ahc0:0:0): "IBM DSAS-3720 S47W" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 696MB (1427328 512 byte sectors) > (ahc0:6:0): "HP HP35480A 1109" type 1 removable SCSI 2 > st0(ahc0:6:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, drive empty This combination works find for me in my machine at work (except that i've got two ahc's, where one does only drive the disks). Looks like poor cabling, mistermination, colliding term power, or something like this. (Just my DM 0.02.) Err, no, my machine doesn't have an ``Ultra''. Dunno whether this makes any difference. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)