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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.uoregon.edu!news.rediris.es!lgdx06.lg.ehu.es!not-for-mail From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange message from SCSI ahc driver at boot Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:19:15 +0200 Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica Lines: 30 Message-ID: <338ED3D3.41C67EA6@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <338D5018.3BFF@we.lc.ehu.es> <01bc6c5c$550c6d00$b5cc93cf@worldnet.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: salmon.we.lc.ehu.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41883 J.C. Archambeau wrote: > > 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. > I have received the following message from Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com>: :This is normal. I have the same similar system. It just means that the :CD is 8 bit. Boot using -v option and you will see 16 bit for the disk. Sure. Booting with -v showed that transfers with the HD are 16-bit wide. Anyway, I would like to know what "ahc:0:A:5" means. At least, it's a somewhat confusing message. Thanks, --JM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jose M. Alcaide | E-mail: <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Universidad del Pais Vasco | WWW: Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Phone: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ------------------------------------------------------------------------