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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange message from SCSI ahc driver at boot Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 11:39:05 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <338F8139.78AA@OntheNet.com.au> References: <338D5018.3BFF@we.lc.ehu.es> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41952 Jose M. Alcaide 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) Are you sure that the following "refused WIDE" message refers to the Seagate drive. I would _strongly_ suspect that it is associated with the CD-ROM drive and would be staggered if it were a wide device! > 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 Tony