From owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 06:55:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216CA37B401; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [192.35.17.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3633243F75; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@siemens.com) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h6VDsto10993; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:54:56 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h6VDst808424; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:54:55 +0200 (MEST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) 1.46 2003/05/28 09:28:32 ust Exp $) with ESMTP id h6VDssDW095009; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:54:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6VDss0W070958; Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:54:53 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Don Bowman Message-ID: <20030731135453.GA9802@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Echelon: 757, STARLAN, Saddam, Sears Tower, Firewalls X-Advice: Drop that crappy M$-Outlook, I'm tired of your viruses! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIC7902 w/ seagate U320 drive issue on releng-4 (and current) X-BeenThere: aic7xxx@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Adaptec Device Drivers in FreeBSD and Linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:55:01 -0000 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