Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:01:40 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Prasanna Meda <pmeda@akamai.com>, aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safety panics during boot time Message-ID: <465400000.1057705300@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0B3F7B.C38FD3DD@akamai.com> References: <3F0B3F7B.C38FD3DD@akamai.com>
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> Hi All, > > I am facing random panics on my IBM netfinity machines > during boot time. I attached a sample card dump here. > If it boots, then I do not see anymore problems. > > Can you please tell me what is the problem here? > Is there a fix for this problem, without upgrading > to latest 2.4.21 driver? I am using linux 2.4.19. You need to update to a later driver. Source, driver update diskettes, and RPMs are available here: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/DUD/aic7xxx/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/RPM/aic7xxx/ > NO_FREE_SCB macro is 0xd1 in new driver, the same > value was used by MSGIN_PHASEMISS long back in > linux 2.2. Curious to see, I changed panic to a printf(as > it says panic for safety), then it panics again with invalid > scb error. > > What are the safety panics? The panic is there to prevent data corruption - in otherwords, to guarantee the saftey of your data by stopping the system when the controller is in an unexpected state. -- Justin
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