From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Nov 17 4:38:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from brunel.uk1.vbc.net (brunel.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE5B37B479; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 04:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lloyd@localhost) by brunel.uk1.vbc.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAHCcXQ58222; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:38:33 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: brunel.uk1.vbc.net: lloyd owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:38:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Lloyd Rennie X-Sender: lloyd@brunel.uk1.vbc.net To: Mike Smith Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex AcceleRAID-170 32Mb - Help needed with errormsg In-Reply-To: <200011171158.eAHBweF10907@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > While I can find this error quite easily in the driver sources, I find no > > > > explanation of what it means (I have no knowledge of how SCSI works, what > > > > a 'slot' is in this context, etc.) > > > > > > > > Can someone shed a little light on this? > > > > > > This looks frighteningly like a new manifestation of a known quirk in the > > > Mylex firmware (see mlxreg.h and the discussion on the size of the > > > command ring). I haven't had any feedback from Mylex on that quirk > > > though. > > > > :/ > > > > Couldn't find the discussion in mlxreg.h > > Sorry, bottom of mlyreg.h (wrong driver 8). Got it. > > > However, the fact that the card was running fine, but is now falling over > > > as soon as you boot leads me to wonder if you aren't having hardware > > > problems. Is the card overheating? Is the DIMM properly inserted? Is > > > the card properly seated? > > > > Yup. Tried different memory too - the error's still present but the > > numbers are different (equally out-of-range though). And it's not > > overheating cos we can leave the thing off overnight and it happens first > > boot in the morning. > > Hrm. What firmware are you running? BIOS is 6.00-00 Firmware is 6.00-01 -- Lloyd Rennie VBCnet GB Ltd lloyd@vbc.net tel +44 (0) 117 929 1316 http://www.vbc.net fax +44 (0) 117 927 2015 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message