Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 19:38:38 -0700 From: Prasanna Meda <pmeda@akamai.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safety panics during boot time Message-ID: <3F0CD1AE.1310BB93@akamai.com> References: <3F0B3F7B.C38FD3DD@akamai.com> <465400000.1057705300@aslan.btc.adaptec.com>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > 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: Thankyou, I did not see any problems afterwards, but we are still testing to conclude they are gone. > > > 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. Ok, it is odd to see NO_FREE_SCBS, when only 2 out of 32 are used! Thanks, MLPKR.
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