Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 21:34:03 -0500 From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with ASR card/5.4 Message-ID: <20050529023403.GA20906@tigerfish2.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20050520131345.P8229@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200505162358.j4GNwFjg033775@sullivan.realtime.net> <20050518160240.Q87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20050519022029.GB16642@tigerfish2.my.domain> <20050520131345.P8229@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Hi Doug,
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:14:51PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Bruce Burden wrote:
> >
> > Hi Doug,
> >
> > well, pulling cards demonstrated where the problem lie, but it
> > was not a hardware problem. By chance, I happened upon the "options
> > ASR_COMPAT" directive, and that solved my problem. However, the
> > GENERIC kernel configuration for i386 does NOT have this option, but
> > it does have the "asr" driver configured.
>
> ASR_COMPAT controls some sizes of fields for use with the control ioctl. I
> don't think this would case problems on boot unless you are running an old
> control program at boot time, or whenever the panic occurs.
>
I did not have any of the ASR tools installed, since this was
a clean install from the 5.4 CD. As it was, the tools were not
installed until one of the SCSI drives failed 1 week after I had
5.4 installed and running more or less to my satisfaction.
Bruce
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