From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 15 14:24:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DEA16A41F; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:24:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from smtp-gw-cl-d.dmv.com (smtp-gw-cl-d.dmv.com [216.240.97.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A475343D45; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:24:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from mail-gw-cl-b.dmv.com (mail-gw-cl-b.dmv.com [216.240.97.39]) by smtp-gw-cl-d.dmv.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jAFENWft053895; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:23:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from lanshark.dmv.com (lanshark.dmv.com [216.240.97.46]) by mail-gw-cl-b.dmv.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jAFENV0u059385; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:23:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) From: Sven Willenberger To: Ade Lovett In-Reply-To: <9A03FF42-675B-42AB-8B42-75B7DA1CC46A@FreeBSD.org> References: <43734B59.7090609@yahoo.com.br> <12EFECDE-A63D-42A0-AD3C-575B8FE5113B@FreeBSD.org> <43750454.1010709@despammed.com> <9A03FF42-675B-42AB-8B42-75B7DA1CC46A@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:24:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1132064694.10715.3.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 216.240.97.42 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 216.240.97.39 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Amit Rao Subject: Re: ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:24:49 -0000 On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 22:57 -0800, Ade Lovett wrote: > On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:51 , Amit Rao wrote: > > 0) Upgrade to Seagate 10K.7 drive firmware level 0008. That seems > > to help. One "ahd sequencer error" message still appears at boot, > > but after that it seems to work (with your fingers crossed). > > Of course, you then spend far too much time ensuring that any > replacement drives are flashed appropriately (which, afaict, > *requires* Windows to do), and also running the gauntlet of further > problems down the road when you throw the drives into a new machine > with a subtly different HBA bios. > > No thanks, I'll stick with option (2). A few more months, and > Seagate drives will be a nice distant memory that I can look back on > in a few years, and laugh nervously about. > > -aDe There was a flash-utility that was [hand-rolled?] able to run on FreeBSD and I did successfully flash some Seagate drives' firmware -- didn't help any as far as the error [messages] went so we dropped Seagate drives altogether a little over a year ago. Since then we have been using the IBM/Hitachi drives with no issues (much easier to change drive manufacturers than try to respec the servers we were using or do some of the borderline-absurd workarounds that Seagate suggested). Sven