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Date:      Sun, 18 May 1997 07:54:04 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Steve Caine <shc@cfg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2940 Can't Find Disks After Rebooting
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970518075404.00a414b0@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970517213735.3d0f8af0@mail.cfg.com>

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At 09:37 PM 5/17/97 -0700, Steve Caine wrote:
>I've just installed a copy of 2.2.1-Release which runs fine.  However, I
>can't reboot it without first turning power off & back on.  System:
>When booting after power-on, the Adaptec finds the 2 disks, the boot
>manager runs & starts the FreeBSD boot, FreeBSD comes up & all is well.
>
>On the next boot attempt, however, the Adaptec gives the "Press ^A to
>run utilities" message, waits for about 60 seconds, and says "Timeout
>failure during SCSI Inquiry Command" -- it doesn't find either of the
>disks.
>I've searched the mailing list archives but don't see anything applicable.

In the Adaptec's BIOS, _enable_ Plug and Play SCAM support.  It fixed the
same problem for us after soft reboots....


	---Mike
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