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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AH 2940UW && CD && 2.2 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:59:32 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32BAD404.167EB0E7@jnet.vi> References: <32BA9800.7DE1@MCI.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: backen.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32888 Jeff Kreska wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get a CDROM drive to work on 2.2 with an Adaptec > 2940UW controller. > I have. > I get a message about drive refusing wide?? transfers using 8bit > transfers. Then the system sits there for about 30 seconds, and I see a > scsi bus reset occurs and the boot continues. When the system is booted > the kernel doesn't report any CDROM drive found. > This error can be avoided by turning of WIDE negotiation for that device in the Adaptec BIOS (ctrl-A at boot time). I assume that you have the CD attached to the narrow SCSI connector (50-pin, the phyically large one) and not the wide (68-pin, physically smaller) one? -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |