Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:54:53 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> 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: <20030731135453.GA9802@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533702741FFD@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533702741FFD@mail.sandvine.com>
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On Sun, 27-Jul-2003 at 20:47:14 -0400, 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!]. Nice to hear it worked! Did you have to do any modifications in order to get it running? The only Seagate drive I used it with was an old ST15150 4GB drive... Did you receive .sea files from Seagate? Did they have a length of n * 512 + 80 bytes? I am just asking because I'd like to know if the 80 bytes header ist still present... Thanks, -Andre
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