From owner-aic7xxx Mon Mar 27 20:54:39 2000 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF95E37B5C6 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:54:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dledford@redhat.com) Received: from localhost (dledford@localhost) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25814; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:54:24 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: devserv.devel.redhat.com: dledford owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:54:24 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Ledford X-Sender: dledford@devserv.devel.redhat.com To: Jim Shepherd Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aic7xxx timeout errors on boot In-Reply-To: <38E01244.908C72FE@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Jim Shepherd wrote: > Is there any work being done to resolve these timeout errors. It seems > that at least a few people are hampered by them. As mentioned before, I > am willing to help in any way. I do not have any background in > programming drivers, but I can apply patches and will provide any > information about the system or errors even if it requires re-entering > by hand the boot-up messages. > Try turning down or off the Syncronous negtiation speeds in the Adaptec BIOS area and see if that makes a difference on your drive. Also make sure you aren't enabling the PROBE_ALL_LUNS options in the SCSI configuration area when building your kernel. -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message