From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 15:18:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B8F16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com (smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com [216.240.97.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0434343D1F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:18:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from lanshark.dmv.com (lanshark.dmv.com [216.240.97.46]) i2INITW1075247; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:18:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) From: Sven Willenberger To: Don Bowman In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079651848.26798.89.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:17:28 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: odd dmesg scsi error with aic7902 controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:18:16 -0000 On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 18:06, Don Bowman wrote: > From: Sven Willenberger [mailto:sven@dmv.com] > > Have just moved to supermicro 1U boxes using 80-pin SCA > > drives (Seagate > > ST336607LC) and U320 adaptec on-board controllers (aic7902) and the > > error shown in the dmesg below crops up during bootup. > > > > The odd thing is that it only occurs if 2 or more drives are > > connected; > > if only 1 drive is physically attached, the boot up sequence > > is smooth. > > These boxes are not yet in production and I hesitate to do so if the > > error message is an indication of future problems. This same message > > does occur in FreeBSD 4.9-Release also. The following dmesg snippet > > comes from a 5.2.1-Release system: > > Upgrade your firmware on the drive. This is available from > seagate. You want version 007. I have a utility that can > do this under bsd if you wish. > The firmware on the drive from which server I posted the dmesg was 0007: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device However, I do have drives that are 0006 so I really could still use the bsd utility as I would like to avoid doing this via windows for those drives (I still have maybe a dozen with firmware 0006). I did get the image itself from Seagate .... Sven (who hopes not to spend all summer on this issue :-P )