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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 10:33:50 +0200
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Joe Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Continuing ahc problems - also cause fxp failure
Message-ID:  <20010527103350.B17013@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <200105270400.f4R40MZ10833@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:00:18PM -0700
References:  <200105261957.f4QJvEB01244@earth.backplane.com> <200105270400.f4R40MZ10833@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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On Sat, 26-May-2001 at 21:00:18 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> In message <200105261957.f4QJvEB01244@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon 
> writes:
> >     Ok, I've managed to upgrade my Dell 2400 BIOS from A03 to A07.  I don't
> >     see any sort of bios upgrade for the 7890/91 (on-board) or the 7880 (card
> > )
> >     but from other emails I gather then on-board 7890/91's bios is part of
> >     the system bios, and that's the ahc that was crashing (the PCI card is
> >     just connected to a cdrom).  I've got the console hooked up to record
> >     whatever happens.
> > 
> >     Now we'll wait and see :-)
> 
> You say you have a 7880 card that I assume you purchased separately or 
> was installed separately by the vendor?  If that's the case the BIOS 
> upgrade at Adaptec's site could be applied.
> 
> The URL for the 2940UW (7880 chipset) BIOS upgrade is:
> 
> http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.html?cat=%2F
> Product%2FAHA-2940UW&prodkey=AHA-2940UW at the bottom of the page.
> 
> The 2940UW BIOS upgrade is only to be applied to retail 2940UW's, e.g. 
> not those sold by OEM's on a motherboard.  Two BIOS upgrades are 
> available 1.34.3 and 2.20

JFYI,

the current version is 2.57.2. All BIOSes are easily to find by
doing an 'ls -lrt' in ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/eprom_bios

	-Andre

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