Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:56:06 +0100 From: stephw@xs4all.nl To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2940U2W supported? Message-ID: <19990305185606.A7516@xs3.xs4all.nl>
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n Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Kenneth D. Merry wrote in list.freebsd-scsi: > > > They're both supported and should both work fine. > > > > I'm afraid they do not work fine. :-( > > > > Every once in a while, it _hangs_ forever when it displays > > > "waiting for SCSI devices to settle" during boot (I'd guess > > > it happens at every 10th reboot or something like that). > > > This happens both with the Adaptec 2940-U2W and with the > > > onboard Adaptec U2W of an ASUS P2B-LS, using 3.1-RELEASE. > > > > I can confirm this behavior. unfortunately I can confirm this as well :( we have 3 freebsd machines with two adaptec 2940U2W each as news machines, all three of them have this problem. > > > It's extremely annoying, because you cannot reboot such a > > > machine remotely and be sure that it comes up again. :-( > > > It renders the Adaptec controllers essentially unusable for > > > production use. > > > > Why do you have to reboot production servers? hm well, 3.1R is maybe not that reliable yet, and it's really annoying if you make a say new kernel, then reboot and then realize after 5-10mins you have to remote power cycle the thing. > By the way, what kind of SCSI devices do you have? Maybe the > problem only occurs with some devices. We have: We got some seagate st39102 ultra2lv. We also tried just attaching only one to one adapter and the problem's still there. bye, Stephanie ----------------------------<> _@r4k.net <>-----------------<> FreeBSD <>--- "I had to hit him -- he was starting to make sense." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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