waiting 15 seconds for scsi devices to settle

[Nikolas Britton]

On 6/28/05, John Brooks <john at day-light.com> wrote:
> just a shot in the dark here... have you tried shifting the drives
> to different positions in the drive cage? could it possibly be
> hanging when it probes a vacant slot? bad cable connections?
> bad termination? missing jumpers?
> 

"bad cable connections? bad termination? missing jumpers?"

Sounds like a good bet to me. also is your SCSI card listed here?:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html

The waiting 15 seconds thing is normal btw

Also boot the server with the SCSI card disabled or removed from the
system, you could be having a problem with another device.