From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 10 13:34:59 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA28955 for current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 13:34:59 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28945 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 13:34:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA00203; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 13:34:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199504102034.NAA00203@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "matthew c. mead" cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:26:31 EST." <199503232026.PAA12559@goof.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 13:34:50 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm just clearing out my mail spool and wondering if you've gotten a chance to test out a newer rev of the 2940 driver. It should fix this problem. Thanks, Justin >Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >> There may be some problems with a race condition during probe. This is >> something I'm working on right now. It seems that, although the driver >> is told to poll for its interrupts, interrupts are not masked, and the >> driver gets totally confused when it polls and finds an interrupt waiting, >> but finds the SCB that caused the condition to be gone (handled by the >> interrupt handler in response to the unmasked interrupt). My quick hack >> is to not register the card's interrupt handler until after we attach all >> scsi devices, but I still run into problems when attempting to share >> interrupts between two controllers. I'll post to the list once I get >> something more robust working. > > Hmm. Thanks for the reply! This seems to be the problem I'm >experiencing - I've gotten several different types of errors while it's been >being probed. > >-matt > >-- >Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - > -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration >Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other >---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- ----- -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================