Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:52:40 +0800 From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> To: Jeff Royle <lists@qwirky.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 Release - Adaptec 2130SLP driver?? issue - aac driver Message-ID: <45B0F758.70408@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <45B0F61A.8020507@qwirky.net> References: <45B0D996.8070704@qwirky.net> <45B0F61A.8020507@qwirky.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigEE89F87F1581105BF63F7E74 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeff Royle wrote: > Jeff Royle wrote: >> I could use some advice on this issue I have had with my raid controll= er. >> I am not really running much on the system yet, postfix, Pf + pflogd, >> rlogind, ssh, bsnmp and ntpd. While I was just reading a file with >> less the system stopped responding. I thought it was the network >> interfaces but I was able to ping the interface. Once I plugged a >> monitor into the system I saw this (roughly): >> >> AAC0: COMMAND <SOME HEX> TIMEOUT AFTER X number of seconds >> >> Not good :) >> >> Reset of the system resolved the issue and it booted fine. Since >> the controller stopped responding nothing was recorded to my logs. >> >> Now I have to figure out how to prevent that from happening again. >> >> Basic run down on the system and some history... >> >> P4 3.2Ghz >> Asus P5MT-S MB >> 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 memory >> Adaptec 2130SLP Raid Controller + battery backup module >> 2 Segate Ultra320 73GB 15k RPM (mirrored) >> >> I have run this same system hardware testing 6.2-BETA3, RC-1 and RC-2 >> without this issue. I was using the driver released by Adaptec >> while testing the pre-release installs >> (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/aac/unix/aacraid_freebsd6_drv= _b11518_tgz.htm). =20 >> You could say I am fairly confidient in the hardware itself. I have >> put this system through a lot of testing since BETA3. >> >> The 6.2 release kernel has not been customized all that much, I just >> pulled out all the drivers I would never use. To be safe I kept >> just about all scsi devices/card models still in as I continued my >> testing of 6.2 release. Right now I am going to try taking out aac and= >> aacp then try the driver I used in my previous tests. However, >> since I have run a week without this issue it will be hard/impossible >> tell if this did anything to resolve it...I almost want a crash on the= >> old driver :) >> >> So I need some advice... How best do I debug this issue? >> >> Thanks in advance for any direction you guys can offer me. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jeff >> >> >=20 > It appears the driver I was using in my pre-release testing is newer > then the release driver. >=20 > Stock driver in 6.2r dmesg: >=20 > aac0: <Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S> mem > 0xfc600000-0xfc7fffff,0xfc5ff000-0xfc5fffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci= 2 > aac0: New comm. interface enabled > aac0: Adaptec Raid Controller 2.0.0-1 > aacp0: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0 >=20 > Currently using: >=20 > aacu0: <Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S> mem > 0xfc600000-0xfc7fffff,0xfc5ff000-0xfc5fffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci= 2 > aacu0: New comm. interface enabled > aacu0: Adaptec Raid Controller 2.0.7-1 > aacpu0: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aacu0 >=20 > Going to continue testing with the newer driver. I have some preliminary work on merging the Adaptec driver: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/patch-aac-vendor-b11518 But one of the reviewers has advised me to request boarder testing, especially against old cards and CLI tools, so I have hold the commit for now. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enigEE89F87F1581105BF63F7E74 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsPdYOfuToMruuMARA5y6AJwI69LPXCIfInNuRBrnoJUcSh90agCfZwg0 DOpIHuerrx5waqZlAomwzNs= =BT5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEE89F87F1581105BF63F7E74--
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