From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 19:36:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C90E37B401 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 19:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D6643FB1 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 19:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gropep_it@internode.on.net) Received: from internode.on.net (ppp351.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.245.94])h4B2aJsu020129; Sun, 11 May 2003 12:06:19 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <3EBDB79B.2030106@internode.on.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:08:19 +0930 From: "Kerpal\" Moore "@smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie References: <0E857772-8331-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI controller problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 02:36:21 -0000 Is the cable faulty? You do have a termintor on the tape drive also, don't you? Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a system with a Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter controller. > The original configuration had 1 disk internal and nothing external. > The external connector had nothing plugged into it. All worked fine. > However, I tried to add a DLT drive to the external connector. On > boot, the system hung because it couldn't find the disk. Its supposed > to boot off the SCSI drive. Running the adaptec scsi utilities it > found both the internal disk and the external DLT drive. The disk has > id 0, the DLT 5 and the controller 7. So, I removed the cable from > the system as I just didn't have time to address that issue at the > moment. However, it still hung at the same point in the boot. No > sequence of disconnection of cards, disks, connectors etc. would bring > back the boot capability. It consistently gets an error message that > there is no terminator. So, I added a terminator on the external > jack. It now boots properly. Something has obvioulsy changed but I > can't figure out what it is. I still need to use the DLT - with the > drive, and I need to return the terminator as its borrowed. Any ideas > on how to make this work? Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >