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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



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