Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:29:38 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AIC7902 w/ seagate U320 drive issue on releng-4 (and current) Message-ID: <20030728222919.D17191@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533702741FFD@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533702741FFD@mail.sandvine.com>
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please, I have a whack of drives that need to be done, and prefer to avoid windoze if I can :) On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Don Bowman wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Don Bowman wrote: > > > > > Jul 26 19:27:20 /kernel: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > FYI, i've solved this problem for me by moving to > firmware version 5 on the ST318453LW (U320 15KRPM 18GB) > seagate drive. > > If you are seeing the problem I mentioned with U320 > seagate drive and AIC7902 controller I highly recommend > contacting seagate and requesting the latest rom. > Sadly the actual changes are 'proprietary' so I cannot > be sure this was the root cause of the problem. I'm > guessing there is an issue with large # of tags outstanding, > but its only a hunch. > > I have code to program this ROM under FreeBSD i > will share with anyone who asks. I obtained this > from andre __AT__ albsmeier __DOT__ net, who had > posted information to this list in the past [thank > you!]. > > I cannot be 100% sure this fixes the problem, but it was > pretty easy to reproduce with 'dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=20k', > and now I cannot reproduce on the 15 systems I am trying. > > --don > > _______________________________________________ > 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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