2 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: problems with disk and power.| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Robert Nicholson | May 1, 1996 8:26 pm | |
| Doug White | May 6, 1996 10:13 pm |
| Subject: | Re: problems with disk and power. | |
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| From: | Doug White (dwh...@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu) | |
| Date: | May 6, 1996 10:13:04 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
1. I've got my machine and an external 4 GIG drive in a APS SR2000 case. The 4 GIG is a Quantum Atlas 34300 I'm using a ASUS TP4N configuration with an DTC 3130B Now, when the power to both items is on ... if I switch my machine off I cannot turn the power on again _until_ I've turned off and on the power to the external enclosure...
2. This ones really bugging me. I've got a 2GIG partition on the external enclosure that I'm booting. Whenever I repower my machine it takes at least two boots to get FreeBSD up and running. IT always stops after inetd at boot time and spurts out. sd1(ncr0:2:0): COMMAND FAILED (4 28)@f1090a00. This happens regularly after switching the machine off and rebooting FreeBSD 2.1. If I then reboot it will stick at the boot partition and won't even execute the kernel. If I switch off and turn everything on again it will fsck and boot up fine.
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I've had goofy problems like this with Macintoshes with external drives. The key is the order in which you turn on the devices. If I remember correctly, you want to turn on the external _first_, wait for it to spin up, then turn on the CPU. I think the problem you're running into is that the device isn't ready by the time FreeBSD gets to it.
Perhaps tweaking SCSI_DELAY may help.
Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major