From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 21:38:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA20438 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20409; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA25945 ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 14:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bsdhack@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) id AAA02823; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:17:58 +0300 (EET DST) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199704062117.AAA02823@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: recent changes to aic7xxx.* In-Reply-To: <199704061314.GAA20579@freefall.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Apr 6, 97 11:09:34 pm" To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:17:58 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, gibbs@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > sys/dev/aic7xxx and the result: my system NOW HANGS as a result of memio thing in kernel optios? > Apr 6 22:06:29 freebsd /kernel: st0(ahc0:4:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out in dataout phase, SCSISIGI == 0x6 > Apr 6 22:06:29 freebsd /kernel: SEQADDR == 0x125 > Apr 6 22:06:29 freebsd /kernel: st0(ahc0:4:0): abort message in message buffer > > previously I could still do other things on my system...not any more. also, dont tell me you have 3940? since, on my 4 drive 3940 system i got those, actually any attempt to _read_ the filesystems caused that. annoying. i thought i have bad drives, or something. but swapped my 2940 into the machine anyway. worked like an angle. before that i had tested $$$$ cables with active terminations and stuff, but no dice. ok, so i thought i had a bad 3940, put it into another machine, with only one drive, after i took the memio option off, it worked like an angle. so, _now_ i'm clueless. i use latest 2.1-REL i have a hunch 3940 and 2940 arent actually "same" thing as hardware, 3940 is something more that just doubled 2940. oh yeah, memio works with 2940, i mean, it doesnt hang there. 3940 is complitely inoperable with it. actually, i feel rather tempted to get those ncr cards instead of adaptec. mickey