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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! SCSI Problems
Date: 27 May 1997 05:36:00 GMT
Organization: Reinhild & Andreas Klemm
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In article <5m9i3c$bji$1@kralle.zdv.uni-mainz.de>,
	harto000@marie.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Oliver Hartmann) writes:
> Using FBSD 2.2.2 turns me into big trouble!
> I used FBSD 2.1.7.1 prior as a server system at our
> institute and switched then to FBSD 2.2.2. Since then I
> have big trouble with the NCR SCSi controler! Before
> upgrading such errors never occured!

Is this exactly the same machine where you had 2.1.7.1 installed
before ? So to say, is is really FBSD 2.2.2, that is causing 
problems ? Here at my site the new SCSI driver changes brought
absolutely stableness with the ahc driver, which had problems in
early FreeBSD 2.2 versions.

> While booting the kernel I obtain errors on several devices,
> mostly the SCSI controler itself. The device produces
> an error like nrc0:0:0: fatal error 
> or restart or couldn't get size or anything else (size-errors
> only in the case probing fails on a device, not on the controler
> itself).

What about correct termination ? Could you please send a detailed
problem report using send-pr or the frontend on the FreeBSD Web
server ?!

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