From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 28 12:19:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07803 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA07792; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA08847; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:00:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701282000.NAA08847@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Aic7xxx driver instability with the Quantum Atlas To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:00:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701281809.KAA22006@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jan 28, 97 10:09:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is just a heads up that the dreaded "Queue Full" problem with > the Quantum Atlas and the aic7xxx driver has been found. Unfortunately > the fix is not as simple as downloading a new version of the FreeBSD > driver. The problem is a bug in level 912 of the Atlas firmware. You > can obtain the necessary files to upgrade your firmware from Quantum's > ftp site. You will have to run Dos and Adaptec's ASPI drivers > in order to download the firmware to the drive. The URL is: Is there any possibility of determining the firmware rev from software? Then when the queue full condition occurs, you could print a console log message that tells you to update the firmware.... or just print that message on a queue full, always, or for Quantums. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.