From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 04:51:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA25747 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 04:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA25741 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 04:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id HAA01260; Sun, 18 May 1997 07:55:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970518075404.00a414b0@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 07:54:04 -0400 To: Steve Caine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 2940 Can't Find Disks After Rebooting In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970517213735.3d0f8af0@mail.cfg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *