Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:25:28 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI controller problem Message-ID: <BD8EA25C-8381-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <3EBDB79B.2030106@internode.on.net>
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On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 19:38 US/Pacific, Kerpal" Moore @smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net wrote: > Is the cable faulty? You do have a termintor on the tape drive also, > don't you? > > > Doug Hardie wrote: > >> I have a system with a Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter controller. >> The original configuration had 1 disk internal and nothing external. >> The external connector had nothing plugged into it. All worked fine. >> However, I tried to add a DLT drive to the external connector. On >> boot, the system hung because it couldn't find the disk. Its >> supposed to boot off the SCSI drive. Running the adaptec scsi >> utilities it found both the internal disk and the external DLT drive. >> The disk has id 0, the DLT 5 and the controller 7. So, I removed >> the cable from the system as I just didn't have time to address that >> issue at the moment. However, it still hung at the same point in the >> boot. No sequence of disconnection of cards, disks, connectors etc. >> would bring back the boot capability. It consistently gets an error >> message that there is no terminator. So, I added a terminator on the >> external jack. It now boots properly. Something has obvioulsy >> changed but I can't figure out what it is. I still need to use the >> DLT - with the drive, and I need to return the terminator as its >> borrowed. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks. Terminators are properly placed. However, I don't know the status of the cable. Its in good physical condition, but it did come out of storage with the drive.help
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