From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 03:31:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA02943 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 03:31:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smople.thehub.com.au (smople.thehub.com.au [203.17.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02933 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 03:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from richard@localhost) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA06466; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 21:32:22 GMT Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 21:32:22 +0000 () From: Richard J Uren To: Peter Dufault cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI disk not identifying properly. In-Reply-To: <199512060958.EAA08432@hda.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Peter Dufault wrote: > > So I just got a new Conner CFP4207S out of the box & plugged it in to my > > adaptec 2940 SCSI card and behold the Conner identifies itself > > as SCSI ID 0,1,2,3,4,5 & 6 on the bus. But the card gets its own ID (7) > > correct. > > The firmware is probably smart enough not to probe its own ID. > > > > > Other devices are : Seagate SCSI ID 2. > > I assume this doesn't show up since the Conner showed up as ID 2? > Correct. > > > This is before FreeBSD even boots - at the BIOS SCSI id inquiry phase. > > Does it have an external ID selector switch installed upside down? > No. Its just the drive - no case, mounted internally. However I fixed ( ? read as played round with until working) it by removing all the scsi jumpers from the device. It seems happy to identify itself as ID 6 (no jumpers & it wants to be ID 6 ??) & its working fine. Maybe it has some wierd SCSI auto ID selection thing ? (wild guess). Cheers RIchard