Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:27:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Tracy <ncrawler@telerama.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird SCSI problems with BT-958 Buslogic card... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990829132937.25607H-100000@gauntlet.telerama.com> In-Reply-To: <199908232002.OAA58981@narnia.plutotech.com>
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Justin, Hiya! I am still having the problem with the 5.06I FW on that BT-958 host adapter. Just thought I'd throw you some more comments.. I thought you might be interested in this, because I have no problems with the 2.2.x BT-958 driver in 3 other machines with nearly the exact same hardware configuration. I was reading throught the archives from awhile back and saw a few threads dealing with this.. in particular...: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=677678+680896+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-bugs/19990627.freebsd-bugs http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=634678+637538+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-questions/19990207.freebsd-questions I was wondering about the second one -- that fix in cam_xpt.c... I tried adding these quirk entries for my seagate drives, which happen to be exactly the same drive as Chuck O'Donnell was using -- the ST34572W and ST34573W, 4GB seagate barracudas. The quirk entries didn't help me.. I also tried adjusting the tagged queueing options and max CCBs in bt.c (i.e., turning off tagged queueing completely / lowering the CCBs to like 32 when it was on,) neither of which helped. So anyways, like I was saying I have 4 machines here -- all of which have nearly the exact same hardware config, that is, a BT-958, and either 1 or 2 4GB seagate barracudas. Three of the machines are running 2.2.x releases (2.2.6/2.2.7) and none have had ANY SCSI problems for over a year or so. Then, I decided I wanted to upgrade just one of these machines to 3.2-STABLE. I wiped the disks and planned to do a clean install of 3.2.. I immediately started having the timeout problems as soon as I booted up with the boot floppies. Eventually I was able to work around this and get the OS installed by putting in a new SCSI disk (another 4GB seagate barracuda actually.) Once the OS was installed, all of our software was setup (just amanda and named.) The machine worked for a while before flaking out like it did, that is, for at least a week or so. I really wish I could take one of the other machine's BT-958 cards and try it in this machine that is flaking, but those servers are all still in production, and it would be bad to take them off-line. So, all of this COULD be because of a faulty SCSI card on my end--I am working to try and get it replaced with an Adaptec 2940UW pro. See ya, -Chris On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.990823095859.28594I-100000@gauntlet.telerama.com> you wrote: > > > bt0: <Buslogic Multi-Master SCSI Host Adapter> rev 0x08 int a irq 11 on > > pci0.11.0 > > bt0: BT-958 FW Rev. 5.07B Ultra Wide SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 192 > > CCBs > > Try dropping down to the 5.06I FW. You can pick it up from > ftp://ftp.mylex.com/pub/flashbios/wpflash.exe > > The author of the Linux driver reported problems with 5.07B some time > back and 5.06I seems to be a stable release. > > -- > Justin > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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