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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI problems performing writes to FAST SCSI-2 drives Date: 14 Feb 1996 00:20:11 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fr9rr$t4i@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <4fqnbb$f7v@viking.ucsalf.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapehost.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <4fqnbb$f7v@viking.ucsalf.ac.uk>, mark@ucsalf.ac.uk says... > >Hi, > Trying to get a Conner CFP4207S 4Gb FAST SCSI-2 drive to install under >2.1.0-RELEASE. The system has problems writing even the partition table to >the disk. The write falls over with the following on VTY2: > >ahc_scsi_cmd0: more than 256 DMA segs >sd0: oops not queued >biodone: buffer already done >init died (signal 0, exit 1) > >I have been occasionally to get past the partition write, but it mentions it >can't mount swap and then fails to make the filesystems. >This also happens with an IBM DFHS S2F 2Gb FAST SCSI-2 drive. It happens with >a 1542C, 1542CF, AHA 2940 controller and on two different machines 100MHz >Pentium and non PCI DX2 66MHz. Same problem, but different number of DMA segs on the >1542 (less SCB's??.) With a DEC DSP5200S 2Gb SCSI-2 (not FAST) I have no problems >at all on either machine with any SCSI adapter. I'd really like a FAST drive though. >Any ideas what this could be? Termination? Cable? Tom