Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:29:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AIC7902 w/ seagate U320 drive issue on releng-4 (and current) Message-ID: <20030728222854.O17191@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <2849575408.1059363406@aslan.scsiguy.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533702741FFD@mail.sandvine.com> <2849575408.1059363406@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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Just as an FYI, we just downloaded the 006 firmware this afternoon ... On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > FYI, i've solved this problem for me by moving to > > firmware version 5 on the ST318453LW (U320 15KRPM 18GB) > > seagate drive. > > This is exactly what I was going to suggest. 0004 is known > bad in packetized operation. Your test to drop the speed to > 160MB/s was a good thought, but for the 790X controllers, we > will still attempt to run with packetized protocol, assuming > the device supports it, even when you reduce the negotiated > rate. You can disable packetized protocol in SCSI-Select which > would probably have allowed you to limp along until you got > updated firmware. > > Sadly, 0005 is not perfect. I have seen situations where under > hight tag load 0005 still drops trasactions. I believe that > Seagate has a fix for this, but it has yet to be put into > release level firmware. You might want to touch base with > them in another month to see if they have released a follow > on to 0005. > > -- > Justin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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