Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:45:42 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Adaptec 1522 Scuzzi Message-ID: <000401c110df$36cc61c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010720031252.9D35937B409@hub.freebsd.org>
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I would guess that the BIOS on that card is too old to properly deal with the large disk drive. If you can round up a 500MB or smaller SCSI disk try putting that on the card at SCSI id 0 and the larger disk at ID 1. Another trick is to disable the 1522 BIOS totally and boot from an IDE disk. Once the FreeBSD kernel is loaded and the aic driver is loaded, you don't use BIOS and your fine. But before that time the system must get it's info from the BIOS code on the 1522 card and if I remember the original 1522's could only speak Cylinder/Head/Sector. I know that I've had problems with older 1522's and boot disks larger than 500MB. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Reynolds >Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:09 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Adaptec 1522 Scuzzi > > >I just got my fbsd 4.3 cd's in the mail, and i want to start off >with a fresh install on my server, on my 2.7G Seagate ST43400N >(doubles as a _very_ large paperweight). I >am running and all in one (read el-cheapo) k6-266 mb. I have a >adaptec 1522 scsi controller (it is the same as the 1520, however it >is the floppy interface on it which is >disabled, and is one of the first production cards as it has no >p-n-pray on it). it is @ port 0x340,irq11(have dm0,irq11 assign to >legasy/isa in bios), it detects fine when it >is probed, and it detect the hard drive too. the card & the drive >as both terminated on either end (the drive side is terminated with >a 50 active, and i have terminator >power jumpered "on" on the hd itself). the problem is when i try to >partition the drive, it wont bring up da0 (or any drives for that >matter), which is a problem. I am sort of >stumped, I've used fbsd as a server for about 3 years now (granted i >rarely hack into since it always brings up the dod ppp and smtpd >faithfully) so i am not a total moron. >the drive and card worked Aok in my win98se box until i pulled it >and got a 30g ide. the only other thing i can think of is that i >tried to Dangerously Dedidate it as a 2nd >drive b4, which means no partition table, but i was under the >impression that fbsd accessed everything as low level as possible... > >thanx in advance. > >--- >doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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