Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:18:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <digital@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCR 53c875 SCSI Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980926231207.2487C-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980926172049.5299A-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>
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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
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