Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:23:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI setup problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303191735.21429E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980302222649.25095B-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bryce Newall wrote: > ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 1 int a irq 11 on pci0:14 > ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs > ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > ahc0:A:0: refuses WIDE negotiation. Using 8bit transfers > Unexpected busfree. LASTPHASE == 0xe0 > [That's the odd line I was referring to.] > SEQADDR == 0x41 > (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM LPS540S 5900" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 516MB (1057616 512 byte sectors) This first Quantum doesn't like wide mode and jams up the bus. As long as the world is a happy place I wouldn't be worried. > When using the disk partition editor, I created a single slice using the > "A = Use Entire disk" option. I then wrote out the changes and got the > message "Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully.". Next, I > went to the Disk label editor, where I saw sd2 and its 4133 MB of free > space. I tried creating a single partition within the slice, and also > tried creating two (which was my original goal). Neither worked; the > partitions got created, but when disklabel tried to create the > filesystems, it got the message: > > Error mounting /dev/sd2s1e on /usr2 : Invalid argument Did you newfs it first? See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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