From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 23:17:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16638 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16622; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from digital@www2.shoppersnet.com) Received: from localhost (digital@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA02547; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from digital@www2.shoppersnet.com) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:18:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCR 53c875 SCSI Problems In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Howard Lew wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Dan Busarow wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Howard Lew wrote: > > > Somehow, the Seagate Hawk drive is having or causing the command failure > > > problem -- something that never occurred with the 810 when using freebsd. > > > > Try going into the SCSI setup on boot up and set the transfer speed > > to 20MB so it doesn't try wide negotiation. > > > > I tried setting the speed to 20MB and keeping it at 8 bit, but regardless > of what I do the FreeBSD bootup probe still says it is wide scsi and that > 16 bit is enabled. Right after that it starts all the command failed > messages. I flashed upgraded the bios and it didn't help. > > Is there a way to force the driver to use narrow mode? I know this hard > disk can do wide scsi, but I am using the 50 pin connector right now. Is > narrow the default? So if I comment out the code in the setwide in ncr.c > should that do the trick? > > I did some more checking around and found out that Debian Linux also works fine with the Seagate Hawk/Diamond Fireport 40 combination. But FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all suffer from the same problem of being locked on "wide bus" when I am using the narrow connector. Any ideas? Thanks for the help so far. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message