From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 04:07:50 2004 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 7F71F16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 04:07:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1330643D46 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 04:07:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6597E3F8; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:07:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:07:49 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-ID: <20041113040749.GB33689@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/personal/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers X-Tillman-rules: yes he does User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Setting SCSI bus options before reaching fsck at boot time 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: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 04:07:50 -0000 Howdy foilks, I have a SCSI controller (the external 68-pin high density connector on a Compaq Proliant 1600) that seems to ignore it's own settings when I through its bus speed down. This is a problem, as I'm running into /many/ SCSI bus reset problems with this ancient DEC 7-bay JBOD tower that I'm playing with. The problems go away when I use `camcontrol negotiate -R 10 da0` to drop the bus freq to 10MHz from 20MHz and I'd hope to simply set the controller to that speed. No love, sigh. FreeBSD comes up at the drives are 20MHz: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled I'd like to find a way to have camcontrol (or some other mechanism) set the SCSI bus speed on this particular SCSI chain early in the boot process, /before/ it encounters fsck and thus trips over it's own feet in bus resets. If it matters, the SCSI controller shows in dmesg as: sym1: <875> port 0x3400-0x34ff mem 0xc6efe000-0xc6efefff,0xc6efde00-0xc6efdeff irq 10 at device 9.1 on pci1 sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking sym1: [GIANT-LOCKED] Any pointers? -T -- Keeping UUCP running is starting to seem a lot like keeping a 130-year- old man who smokes 4 packs a day on life support because he's the last person on Earth who knows how to do the cha-cha, but he won't tell anyone. - A.S.R. quote (Ryan Tucker)