From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 11:56:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 11:56:50 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monmouth.com (mail.monmouth.com [209.191.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80E337B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from bg-tc-ppp576.monmouth.com (bg-tc-ppp576.monmouth.com [209.191.59.10]) by mail.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA24352 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:56:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by bg-tc-ppp576.monmouth.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eB4Jufr05028 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:56:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <200012041956.eB4Jufr05028@bg-tc-ppp576.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Problem on 4.2-STABLE In-Reply-To: from stable-digest at "Dec 4, 2000 10:57:53 am" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:56:40 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 732-935-0629 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: pechter@bg-tc-ppp576.monmouth.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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: 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