From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 00:25:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578CA37B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB0743FD7 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-200-243.rev.o1.com [66.81.200.243]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h4B7PSHJ079960 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 00:25:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:25:28 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Doug Hardie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3EBDB79B.2030106@internode.on.net> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI controller problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 07:25:31 -0000 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.