From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 6:34:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mce-mo2.mceco.com (mceco.com [207.238.187.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F8D37BFCE for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 06:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ROwczarski@MCECo.com) Received: by MCE-MO2 with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:34:28 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Owczarski, Rene" To: 'Rick McGee' Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: mylex BT958 card Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:34:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick McGee [mailto:rickm@imbris.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:42 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: mylex BT958 card > > > An issue has come up with the driver for the Mylex (buslogics) BT-958 > card and 4.0 free-bsd release. > > BT0 encountered busy mailbox with 190 out of 192 commands active. > DA1:bt0:0:1:0 ccb 0xcfbcc 180 timeout > Which can lead to lockup or reboot of the system. > > After contacting Mylex, Mylex believes this error under heavy load is > being caused by the driver and not the card. > > The problem is consistant with mylex firmware 5.06I and 5.07B. > This problem shows up with drives catanated, using ccd. > > Has anyone seen this problem? If so do we have a fix. > Please respond to my email addres for I am not on this list. > > BTW, where would everyone like the CCD commands and fixes posted? > I'd like to thank everyone who helped with CCD. The pages for CCD on > Freebsd's website are in serious need of updating and several > commands and > steps are missing. > > > Rick > rickm@imbris.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > I had problems with my BT-958D(the same as the 958 except it's differential) as well, and after trial and error with FreeBSD, the problem was with the FW/Bios. The version you have currently seems to have some errors in it. The problem can be fixed by pulling the J1 jumper, to clear the card, and flashing a previous bios onto it. I currently run version 4.96F/5.06I, and I haven't had any problems since then. Here is a link on mylex, to the different versions of the FW/Bios that they carry for the bt-958/bt-958d. http://www7.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/mylex/solution?11=980518-0001&130=089547928 6&14=3&2715=&15=0&2716=&57=search&58=&2900=pmgIKmAExZ&25=6&3=bt%2d958%20bios Hope this helps, -Rene Owczarski System Administrator Motor City Electric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message