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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AH 2940UW && CD && 2.2
Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:01:13 GMT
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Jeff Kreska <jeff.kreska@MCI.COM> wrote:

> 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.

The failing `wide' negotiation should not cause the device to become
unusable.  Since...

> If I plug this CDROM drive into a Buslogic card the system boots just
> fine and the CD is useable.

...this, it seems to be a bug in the ahc driver.  (ISTR that there was
this kind of bug back some time ago.)  Have you tried the 2.2 ALPHA or
BETA?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)