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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!te135-1 From: shad@iastate.edu (Marcus I. Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.1.0 find Adaptec 1740, but not my drives Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 02:34:58 GMT Organization: Iowa State University Lines: 80 Message-ID: <4e45sm$db4@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: te135-1.cce.iastate.edu X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 I'm currently running a FreeBSD WWW server (2.0.5). I would like to move it off of the 386DX/25 with 8M onto a faster machine. I'm having problems. Although FreeBSD 2.1.0 Release finds and properly identifies my Adaptec 1740, it fails to find any hard drives (making installation rather difficult :) I have looked through here, and through the parts of the FAQ that seemed like they qould be appropriate. Nothing seems to apply. -------------------------- The Machine (Note: this has been a netware server for almost 2 years): HP Vectra 486/33T Tower Server (EISA) 40MB RAM Adaptec 1740 SCSI Controller (see below) Target 0 - HP D1685-60001 - Drive C: (80h) Target 1 - HP D1685-60001 - Drive D: (81h) Target 2 - HP D2645 - Drive 82h SMC Elite 16+ (Are there drivers for the NE3200 or any 3com EISA cards?) other standard stuff (2s/p/g, vga, etc.) Adaptec Settings: Host Adapter Interface Mode: Enhanced Mode Standard Mode Resource Selection: I/O Port Definition: Disabled (Enhanced Mode) DMA Channel Definition: Disabled (Enhanced Mode) Host Adapter SCSI ID: Device Id 7 SCSI Bus Reset at Power-on: Enable SCSI bus reset Host Adapter BIOS: Enabled @ Base Address CC000H Advanced Enhanced Mode BIOS Options Extended BIOS Translation: Disabled Support for more than 2 drives: Enabled Immediate Return on Seeks: Enabled SCSI Device Configuration: Error if Device Not Found: no BIOS Support Option: hd (no on device 7) Send Start Command: no Enable Parity Check: yes Initiate Synch Negotiation: yes Enable Disconnection: yes Maximum Synch Xfer Rate (MBs per second) 10.0 ------------------------------- FreeBSD 2.1.0 finds: sio0,sio1,lpt0,lp0,ed0,fd0,sc0,fdc0 (NEC 765), and npx0 ahb0: reading board settings, int=11 ahb0: at 0x6000-0x60ff irq 11 on eisa slot 6 ahb0: waiting for SCSI devices to settle... (I think that's all - as has been pointed out, the pause button doesn't pause it, so it's hard to read the last few devices). Does anyone have any ideas? My old WWW Server can't take much more, so I really need to move to the new server. I don't want to have to learn a new unix (Solaris for the PC most likely), so does anyone have any clues? I've tried just about every option with the Adaptec card, but FreeBSD always finds it - it's the drives it doesn't find. At the very least, I have to keep the 1G drive, and I really want the others too. As I said above, this server has performed wonderfully as a NetWare server since at least June of 1994. I don't know how long it was running as a LanTastic Server before that (it was before my time). Thank you in advance. I will try to follow threads in here, but a CC to my email address (shad@iastate.edu) certainly wouldn't hurt either. Thanks!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus I. Ryan |*The joy of engineering is finding a Asst. SysAdmin, CCE Labs| straight line on a double-logarithmic Iowa State University | scale shad@iastate.edu |-------------------------------------- (515) 294-0715 | http://www.public.iastate.edu/~shad ---------------------------------------------------------------