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#! rnews 1915 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!207.22.81.9!europa.clark.net!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: "J.C. Archambeau" <n-xiv@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange message from SCSI ahc driver at boot Date: 29 May 1997 18:11:09 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <01bc6c5c$550c6d00$b5cc93cf@worldnet.worldnet.att.net> References: <338D5018.3BFF@we.lc.ehu.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.147.204.181 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41879 Jose M. Alcaide <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> wrote: : When I boot FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2100, a strange message : appears when the ahc driver initializes the SCSI devices: : : .............. : ahc0 <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 14 on : pci0:18 : ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs : ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle : ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device : (ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST32171W 0484" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 : sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2047MB (4194057 512 byte sectors) : ahc0:A:5: refuses WIDE negotiation. Using 8bit transfers : (ahc0:5:0): "NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:462 1.14" type 5 removable SCSI 2 : cd0(ahc0:5:0): CD-ROM can't get the size : ............... : : [ Stuff deleted ] : : Any ideas? Did you try disabling wide negotiation for SCSI ID 5 from SCSISelect? Some narrow devices complain if the adapter attempts wide negotiation and you get strange results. Your Seagate may be functioning in wide mode and the error message is applicable to your CD-ROM drive. Another option would be to examine the mode parameters for SCSI ID 0 from EZ-SCSI or FreeBSD's SCSI utility; man scsi from your shell prompt, and see how the device is configured. JCA -- n-xiv@worldnet.att.net