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Subject: Re: problem with 2.1.7-RELEASE #0 
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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
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>I installed FreeBSD release 2.1.7 yesterday, and I've been dealing with some
>very strange errors since then.

Your account sounds very much like a termination problem.  Many changes 
have been made to the driver since 2.1.0, one of them being to honor the 
termination settings stored either in a serial eeprom attached to the 
adapter or left over from a bios.  In the past, the termination was always 
set regardless of cable configuration or user settings.  Could it be that 
your SBC is not properly configured and/or is not setting the termination 
properly?  To find out, boot with the -v flag and note all of the aic7xxx 
driver messages.  You can also see if you BIOS includes SCSI-Select and 
modify the setting there to match your configuration.  Let me know what 
information you find.

>--
>Jim Speth
>scruz-net engineering
>
>

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Justin T. Gibbs
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