Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:07:15 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd SCSI problem in 2.2-STABLE... Message-ID: <199804252307.SAA03617@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:22:35 -0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980425172213.298V-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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The Hermit Hacker writes: > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > In article <199804250305.WAA27641@nospam.hiwaay.net> you wrote: > > > > > > On newer cards with the aic7860 chip and 1.21 BIOS FreeBSD 2.2 would not > > > reboot. It would cold boot into FreeBSD, just not a reboot. Adaptec's > > > BIOS message would appear claiming to be scanning the SCSI bus. And > > > hang. Dumb old Win95 didn't have that problem. Neither did some version > > > of OS/2. Enabling SCAM cured the problem for FreeBSD. > > > > This problem doesn't exist in the CAM version of the driver. > > Which isn't available for 2.2-STABLE yet...is it? :( Something I was imcomplete in describing my problem which was solved by enabling SCAM was that on exit FreeBSD left the 2940 in some state which the 2940 couldn't recover itself from unless SCAM was enabled. IMHO its more of a bug/problem in the Adaptec BIOS code than in FreeBSD. The more I read about CAM the more I suspect I'm going to have to switch to -current for my home playbox. And learn how to extract stable versions of -current using CVS. As it stands, "cd /usr; cvs -q checkout -r RELENG_2_2 src" and "cd /usr/src; cvs -q update -d" are about the extent of my cvs abilities. Just learned to add "-d" to update last week as it wasn't adding newly added directories to my source tree. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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