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From: "Brent J. Nordquist" <nordquist@platinum.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec 2940UW.
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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:58:41 -0500
Cc: george@cia-g.com (George Simunovich),
        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs),
        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rod Grimes)
In-Reply-To: <199605240459.WAA31320@gallup.cia-g.com> from "George Simunovich" at May 23, 96 11:59:50 pm
Reply-to: nordquist@platinum.com (Brent J. Nordquist)
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George Simunovich wrote:
| During bootup the 2940UW gets detected.  Then waits for the SCSI devices
| to settle.  While finding the devices, it just hangs with the HD led
| on.  It doesn't hang on the same device everytime.  After several
| boots it manages to completly boot only to hang after using it for
| a while.
|
| [...]
|
| I just did a sup and recompiled the kernel.  The problem is still there.

I also have the 2940UW.  I sup'ed -stable on May 5, and I've been
having this problem ever since, too!

George Simunovich wrote:
| Here is some more info that might prove helpful:
| 
| Intel Endevor II motherboard.
| Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM video card.
| ...

I also have a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM.  All my devices are on the
internal narrow bus.

Rod Grimes wrote:
| I recently experienced this problem, a quick work around is to turn off
| the Ultra mode in the SCSI-Select BIOS settings.

In the Adaptec's setup, I've disabled wide for all SCSI ID's 0 through
7; I had to do this even to get 2.1.0-RELEASE to work with my Exabyte
4200i 4mm DAT drive.  Is that what you meant (disabling per SCSI ID),
or is there some other global setting that I missed?

I'll try some of the other hints and patches that Justin mentioned, and
I'll let you know the results.

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