From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 23:24:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D9237B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:24:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from core.cydonia.net (keith@core.cydonia.net [205.238.4.104]) by mail.telestream.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f187NsN17292; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:23:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:24:01 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman To: Andrew Sinclair Cc: Travis Leuthauser , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Grrrr Multiple SCSI cards In-Reply-To: <01020811285000.00859@viper.syncnet.dynodns.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For the archives and for my own humiliation , to complete this thread... Turns out the array cases I have are at fault. Found a work around and all is now well. Not a thing to do with Adaptec, FreeBSD or the MotherBoard. Thanks for all the tips, all are good things to know regardless. Thanks. Keith +-------------------------------------------+ | Keith Woodman | | keith@cydonia.net (primary) | | keith@telestream.com (secondary) | | www.cydonia.net | | /^^~~~~~~^^\ | | | O O | | | | ? | | +-------\\\\-------------------////---------+ \________/ On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Andrew Sinclair wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2001 01:39, you wrote: > > Have you checked the Adaptec site for some information? If I remember > > correctly, the last time I attempted to use multiple 2940's in the same > > box, there was something that had to be done to the cards themselves to > > make them live happily together. > > > > Travis > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Keith Woodman > > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:24 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Grrrr Multiple SCSI cards > > > > > > I'm having a heck of a time getting three scsi cards to live > > comfortably together. Is there some trick to having multiple scsi cards > > in the same system that I'm unaware of? I've searched the handbook as > > well as freebsddiary and cruised dejanews for info to no avail. > > I've got 3 2940UW controllers, just flashed the bios on all of them to > > the same version. Every one of them boots fine individualy but not if I > > put them all in at once. It eventualy will boot and mount all the > > drives but only after crashing and halting and resetting the scsi > > busses a couple times right after the "waiting 15 seconds for scsi > > devices to settle" > > > > HAAALLPP !! > > > > Keith > > > > > > +-------------------------------------------+ > > > > | Keith Woodman | > > | keith@cydonia.net (primary) | > > | keith@telestream.com (secondary) | > > | www.cydonia.net | > > | /^^~~~~~~^^\ | > > | > > | | O O | | > > | | ? | | > > > > +-------\\\\-------------------////---------+ > > \________/ > > > Try disabling the BIOS on two of your Host Bus Adaptors (or all of them > if you happen to boot off an IDE device). This may be confusing your > system. You can set this in the Adaptec configuration utility at boot > time. > > If your system still doesn't work, Now would also be a good time to make > sure your busses are set up correctly (cabling, LVD terminators, ID's > etc). I figure crosstalk may be an issue with 3 busses running parallel > to each other (though I can't say for sure as I haven't used more than 1 > Host Bus Adaptor in any of my systems). > > You could also try Gary Field's SCSI Info Central > http://www.scsifaq.org/scsifaq.html > -- > > - Syncman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message