From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 27 1:35: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F19137B423 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 01:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4R8Xo507401; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:33:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4R8Xod17595; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:33:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4R8Xou45349; Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:33:50 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Matt Dillon , Joe Clarke , "Justin T. Gibbs" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Continuing ahc problems - also cause fxp failure Message-ID: <20010527103350.B17013@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <200105261957.f4QJvEB01244@earth.backplane.com> <200105270400.f4R40MZ10833@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105270400.f4R40MZ10833@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:00:18PM -0700 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26-May-2001 at 21:00:18 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <200105261957.f4QJvEB01244@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon > writes: > > Ok, I've managed to upgrade my Dell 2400 BIOS from A03 to A07. I don't > > see any sort of bios upgrade for the 7890/91 (on-board) or the 7880 (card > > ) > > but from other emails I gather then on-board 7890/91's bios is part of > > the system bios, and that's the ahc that was crashing (the PCI card is > > just connected to a cdrom). I've got the console hooked up to record > > whatever happens. > > > > Now we'll wait and see :-) > > You say you have a 7880 card that I assume you purchased separately or > was installed separately by the vendor? If that's the case the BIOS > upgrade at Adaptec's site could be applied. > > The URL for the 2940UW (7880 chipset) BIOS upgrade is: > > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.html?cat=%2F > Product%2FAHA-2940UW&prodkey=AHA-2940UW at the bottom of the page. > > The 2940UW BIOS upgrade is only to be applied to retail 2940UW's, e.g. > not those sold by OEM's on a motherboard. Two BIOS upgrades are > available 1.34.3 and 2.20 JFYI, the current version is 2.57.2. All BIOSes are easily to find by doing an 'ls -lrt' in ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/eprom_bios -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message