From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jan 30 17:45:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9E937B405 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536F743FAF for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0V1jTUc031561 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:45:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0V1jSMc044182 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:45:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0V1jRMS039025; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:45:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0V1jRvi039024; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:45:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:45:27 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Josh Tolbert Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unusual SCSI problem... Message-ID: <20030131014526.GE38062@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20030125055014.GA86967@just.puresimplicity.net> <20030131014541.GB7260@just.puresimplicity.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030131014541.GB7260@just.puresimplicity.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:45:42PM -0600, Josh Tolbert wrote: > I've got a PC164LX, 533MHz 21164A and 1G RAM. I'm trying > to use a Symbios/LSI Logic SYM22910 dual-channel, U2W SCSI controller > with various hard drives. With some drives (specifically IBM > DDYS-34560 UW drives) everything appears to function just fine, > However, with other drives the controller and SRM see the drive, > but exer_werite on the drive doesn't work and FreeBSD doesn't see > the drive. During boot of the 5.0 miniinst CD I get (noperiph:sym0:-1:-1) > or something of the sort for both channels after the "waiting 15 > seconds for SCSI devices" message appears. > > Some wise Alpha people (in #Alpha on freenode; #FreeBSD-alpha > seems to be fairly empty a lot of the time) advised me to "chmod > +w dka300.3.0.6.0", which worked fine and gave me no errors. At > that point I was able to "exer -a w dka300" just fine, as well as > exer_write the drive, but FreeBSD's dmesg still didn't show a drive > present. This is only required, if the drive is probed correctly, but sysinstall doesn't show it. What does boot -v say? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message