From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 17:09:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 531E916A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:09:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freminlins@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97D43D46 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:09:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freminlins@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so114094uge for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:09:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rZpn5nPuKwRT/ehFcalkHYbBEW2JcUBxLOREXMQifO0AvO8s/qKR7afGfdWkG6jWz/OthjxisFfDXWLCwght1Ca2VXVl+XaweJrKskGoIvoa06S8Z9GQtNZjpuaZtn8/IM13eMlSJu7qsb5B29EbSz2OG+XscvX92wCeHbYaOtI= Received: by 10.49.34.11 with SMTP id m11mr1164753nfj; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:09:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.80.14 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:09:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:09:27 +0100 From: Freminlins To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: Subject: Re: Dell SCSI problem (reasonly long with some debugging) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:09:30 -0000 A quick follow up to my earlier post... I tried using FreeBSD 6.0 stable Snap 10, but the problem still exists. I tried installing Solaris 10 (01/06) and the card is not detected by Solaris at all. I tried with RHEL 4 and Win 2003 and the machine works fine. Back on FreeBSD 6.0 release, I lowered the "tags" using camcontrol: camcontrol tags da0 -N 64. The problem then seems to go away. At least I can't provoke it into occurring. Previously if I built a kernel, or untarred the ports tarball the machine would "freeze". Naturally calling Dell support was a pointless exercise. They had never even heard of "Free biscuit". Does anyone have any feedback on what the problem may be, and ideally a fix? Is it "safe" to run a machine in production with my lowered tags? Also, is there a way to set the tags during the boot process? At the moment I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which does this but it doesn't seem ideal. I'm guessing this has happened because it's a OEM version of the Adaptec card and has presumably been modified in some way. Thanks, Frem.