Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:45:27 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Josh Tolbert <hemi@just.puresimplicity.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unusual SCSI problem... Message-ID: <20030131014526.GE38062@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030131014541.GB7260@just.puresimplicity.net> References: <20030125055014.GA86967@just.puresimplicity.net> <20030131014541.GB7260@just.puresimplicity.net>
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:45:42PM -0600, Josh Tolbert wrote: > I've got a PC164LX, 533MHz 21164A and 1G RAM. I'm trying > to use a Symbios/LSI Logic SYM22910 dual-channel, U2W SCSI controller > with various hard drives. With some drives (specifically IBM > DDYS-34560 UW drives) everything appears to function just fine, > However, with other drives the controller and SRM see the drive, > but exer_werite on the drive doesn't work and FreeBSD doesn't see > the drive. During boot of the 5.0 miniinst CD I get (noperiph:sym0:-1:-1) > or something of the sort for both channels after the "waiting 15 > seconds for SCSI devices" message appears. > > Some wise Alpha people (in #Alpha on freenode; #FreeBSD-alpha > seems to be fairly empty a lot of the time) advised me to "chmod > +w dka300.3.0.6.0", which worked fine and gave me no errors. At > that point I was able to "exer -a w dka300" just fine, as well as > exer_write the drive, but FreeBSD's dmesg still didn't show a drive > present. This is only required, if the drive is probed correctly, but sysinstall doesn't show it. What does boot -v say? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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