Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:43:42 -0400 From: David Sze <dsze@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> To: Steve Grandi <grandi@noao.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: STABLE regression with AIC-7902 controller. Message-ID: <20030623214342.GA37678@pooh.distrust.net> In-Reply-To: <20030623105113.B65196@regulus.tuc.noao.edu> References: <20030623105113.B65196@regulus.tuc.noao.edu>
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No solution for you, but I'd like to confirm I have a similar problem with the Supermicro SuperServer 6023P-8, which uses the X5DP8-G2 motherboard and also has an integrated AIC-7902 controller. I no longer have the exact error messages (nor do I have access to the box), but they were something along the lines of "ILLEGAL_PHASE 0x80" and "invalidating pack". I tried both 4.8-RELEASE and 4.8-STABLE cvsuped around 2003/06/13 11:00 AM EDT. Out of maybe 5 attempts, only once with 4.8-RELEASE was successful. But shortly after install and reboot, the same errors appeared on the console and the server became unresponsive. My suspicion is that the AIC-7902 controllers on these boards are not generic Adaptec parts (i.e. SuperMicro has used custom OEM parts or perhaps they bought slightly defective ones for cheap from Adaptec). The reason for my suspicion is that they included 9 floppies with binary-only AIC-7902 drivers for all flavours of Windows (including 2003 Server), Netware, Open UNIX/UnixWare, RedHat 7.2, RedHat 8.0, SuSE 8.0, and SuSE 8.1. On a whim, I tried installing Windows 2003 Server on the machine, and the generic 7902 driver that comes with Win2K3 was unable to recognize the onboard controller. Only with the binary-only driver of the floppy was it able to work. Exactly the same thing happened with RedHat 8.0 and 9.0. On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:47:46PM -0700, Steve Grandi wrote: > > I have a Supermicro SuperServer 6013P-8 system which features a X5DPR-8G2 > motherboard with embedded Adaptec AIC-7902 dual-Ultra320 SCSI controller. > > Said system boots and runs fine with 4.8-RELEASE (with a slight cosmetic > problem during boot that can be cured by building a kernel without eisa > support). With STABLE (as of 19 June) the system locks up hard (no > response to the keboard) during the boot. > > The last messages to appear on the console screen before the hang (with > boot_verbose set) are the following: > > (ahd0:A:1:0): Sending PPR bus_width 1, period 8, offset 7f, ppr_options bf > (ahd0:A:1:0): Received PPR width 1, period 8, offset 3f,options bf > Filtered to width 1, period 8, offset 3f, options bf > ahd0: target 1 using 16bit transfers > ahd0: target 1 synchronous with period = 0x8, offset = 0x3f(RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS) > > As far as I can tell, until this point, the messages on the console are > the same in an unsuccessful STABLE boot and a successful 4.8-Release boot. > > -- > Steve Grandi > National Optical Astronomy Observatory/AURA Inc., Tucson AZ USA > Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 FAX: +1 520 318-8360 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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