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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 00:24:21 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI Confusion
Message-ID:  <20000524002421.F40441@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005232105060.550-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>; from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005232105060.550-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>

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On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0600, Brian Handy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 4.0-STABLE from about May 17.  I have a strange situation
> here; I've got two sets of two disk drives chained to my SCSI bus here
> that I use for data drives.  (Not currently using softupdates.)  From a
> df:
> 
> Filesystem         1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da1s1e          4050327  3644898    81403    98%    /a
> /dev/da2s1e          4050327  2933727   792574    79%    /b
> /dev/da3s1c         17253247   158881 15714107     1%    /c
> /dev/da4s1c         17253247  9725925  6147063    61%    /d

You should not use the c-partition.

> 
> They're connected like this, with "-->" representing cables connecting the
> boxes:
> 
>        (externalbox #1)     (externalbox #2)
> PC --> [SCSI 3, SCSI 4] --> [SCSI 1, SCSI 2]
> 
> Oh yea, dmesg might be useful.  Attached at end.  Anyway, here's the
> problem:  When I dismount and disconnect that last box, remove it from
> fstab, put terminators after externalbox #1, I find that upon reboot
> FreeBSD screams mightily, says I need to do an fsck on drives 3 and 4, 
> and dumps me in single-user mode.  OK, re-attach the box, leave it 
> off... and I still get wild complaints.  Lastly, turn on box #2, but don't
> mount the drives -- and it boots up fine!   
> 
> I'm completely puzzled here.  Any suggestions? 

Are you _absolutely_ sure that the drives in box #1 are equivalent to
da3 and da4 (the 17.4 GB drives) and that box #2 contains the two 4 GB
drives?

When you are in that single user mode, what does,

  # camcontrol devlist -v

Show?

As an aside, am I the only one with no sym(4) manpage?

> --
> sym0: <875> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xfedff000-0xfedfffff,0xfedfec00-0xfedfecff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
> sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
> sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
> da4 at sym0 bus 0 target 12 lun 0
> da4: <SEAGATE ST118273W 5764> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da4: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da4: 17366MB (35566480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C)
> da3 at sym0 bus 0 target 11 lun 0
> da3: <SEAGATE ST118273W 5764> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da3: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da3: 17366MB (35566480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C)
> da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <WDIGTL ENTERPRISE 1.61> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
> da1: 4157MB (8515173 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 530C)
> da2 at sym0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <WDIGTL ENTERPRISE 1.61> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da2: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
> da2: 4157MB (8515173 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 530C)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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