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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
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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