From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 20:51:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02826 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02811 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA07629; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:51:22 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: SWorthington@hsag.com Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 Waiting for scsi to settle Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 03:55:24 GMT Message-ID: <3612fcb5.55626316@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:26:23 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >It looks like this problem is greater that it appears. > >So far, I have seen other e-mails regarding the same issue: >Adaptec 2940 scsi cards not working with FreeBSD >2.2.5, FreeBSD 2.2.6, or FreeBSD 2.2.7. > >Adding to this problem is my findings: >My new Adaptec AHA-2940UW BIOS 1.34.3 (1998) experiences the >same waiting for scsi to settle (forever) >My new Adaptec AHA-2940UA BIOS 1.32 (1997) experiences the >same waiting for scsi to settle (forever) Check the archives from last year around this. If you enable "Plug and Play SCAM" in the BIOS, this seems to fix the problem, or at least it did for me back when I was using those old cards... ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message