Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:56:40 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.dyndns.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Problem on 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <200012041956.eB4Jufr05028@bg-tc-ppp576.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.91982.20001204105753@hub.freebsd.org> from stable-digest at "Dec 4, 2000 10:57:53 am"
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> On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:15:15AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >Thanks Antonio, > > >Looking at the 4.2 release notes, the ahc driver was updated. Wonder if the > > >kernel guys made changes that made supporting the old bios's impossible. > > > > At the point that the kernel takes over control of the 2940, the BIOS > > should be irrelevant. I'll see if I can scare up a 2940 of that > > vintage and reproduce your problem. The probable cause is that we, > > at some point during initialization, reference a piece of SCB ram > > that has never been written to. > > I have one that seems to have this problem. > ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xea101000-0xea101fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 > aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > Chalk up another one with a similar problem. I just tried to install 4.2-RELEASE on an IBM 760XL Thinkpad with Select-A-Dock-I and I get parity errors from the 2940 device built into the dock until I power it off... There's nothing (at this time) on the SCSI bus. I'll try 4.1-RELEASE tonight. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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