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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
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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
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