From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 06:24:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA24962 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from www.istudio.no (istudio.no [193.216.235.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA24947 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lindgren@istudio.no) Received: from kraftwerk.istudio.no (swotl@kraftwerk.istudio.no [193.216.235.30]) by www.istudio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA08805 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:23:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199710231323.PAA08805@www.istudio.no> X-Sender: lindgren@193.216.235.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro 4.0 Beta 2 (build 190) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:23:53 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Simon Lindgren Subject: wide negotiation refused Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On boot-up I receive this message (a warning?) : ---------------- ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:12 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle ahc0:A:6: refuses WIDE negotiation. Using 8bit transfers (ahc0:6:0): "QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3S 0F0C" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 4136MB (8471232 512 byte sectors) --------------- it's the "refusing WIDE negotiation"-bit I'm concerned with. Can I make it stop refusing somehow? Or should it indeed be refusing? it looks like it's the drive itself that complains (ID:6) - do I need a new one to make it work? Thank you for any help lindgren@istudio.no