Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:13:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: proett@nas.nasa.gov (Tom Proett) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quantum atlas vs adaptec Message-ID: <199605080613.XAA02959@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199605072133.OAA27433@tailspin.nas.nasa.gov> from Tom Proett at "May 7, 96 02:33:33 pm"
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> I grep'ed through the FAQ to see if there was any info on this but didn't > find it so here goes... > > I bought a Quantum Atlas scsi disk drive (XP34300) and connected it to > my Adaptec 1742A scsi adaptor. I have a micropolis disk as scsi id 0 > and the atlas is scsi id 1. The adaptec is scsi id 7. > > I started from DOS and ran fdisk fine. Then I tried format. All went > well until the end when it was going to write the label. At this point, > the system froze with the drive and adaptor busy lights on solid. > I tried doing a few things with the drive and almost everything resulted > in a freeze. I contacted Quantum and they said there was a timing problem > between the atlas and the adaptec 1742 and gave me a firmware upgrade for > the disk. It completed with no error but the freeze still happens. > Trying to access the disk from FreeBSD results in a freeze as well. > > Any ideas? Have you triple checked that the SCSI bus termination is set up correctly? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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