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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!xara.net!agate.xara.net!brandcomms.com!usenet From: Craig Stratton <craigs@brandcomms.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: Adaptec 2940 UW Date: 25 Jun 1996 10:48:41 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4qog69$ggj@ns2.brandcomms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo108.brandcomms.com Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu> writes: > On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Gunnar Pruessner wrote: > > > Is it possible to use an adaptec 2940 UW (Ultra Wide SCSI) > > Controller with FreeBSD? > > I have them in all my serious servers (well, the ones that only need a > single scsi bus anyway), and they work beautifully with freebsd 2.1.0 and > later. > > Jamie > > I have my finger on the pulse of the planet. > I have had some problems with the adapter in my news server. This is a list of the error messages so far today from midnight to midday. Jun 25 01:59:23 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:651060 Jun 25 03:30:08 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:6301f0 Jun 25 03:51:31 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:651110 Jun 25 04:13:52 ns2 /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): NO SENSE info:5b81f Jun 25 04:36:29 ns2 /kernel: sd2(ahc0:2:0): NO SENSE info?:4410c0 Jun 25 07:40:01 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:1565d0 Jun 25 07:50:01 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:229cb0 Jun 25 09:10:01 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:d1050 Jun 25 09:19:47 ns2 /kernel: sd2(ahc0:2:0): NO SENSE info?:214cd0 Jun 25 09:20:01 ns2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): NO SENSE info?:63b070 After a while, the machine locks up completely and has to be rebooted, although sometimes it does it of its own free will. I have two FreeBSD servers, the other is identical apart from the SCSI controller is not PCI UW. I can thereofre only assume that is the cause of the trouble. Any thoughts from anyone would be appreciated. Regards, Craig.