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Date:      Wed, 01 Jul 1998 21:56:01 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au, ejh@mnw.eas.slu.edu
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk drive errors Toshiba 6200M 
Message-ID:  <199807020456.VAA07722@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807011724.KAA00594@antipodes.cdrom.com>
References:  <199807011724.KAA00594@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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In article <199807011724.KAA00594@antipodes.cdrom.com>,
Mike Smith  <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:

> > I suspect that both disk drives may have problems
> > but before i attempt to get warranty repair
> > Could this be software related?
...
> You need to upgrade the firmware on these drives.
> 
> Get http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/firmware/micropolis_tomahawk.tar.gz.

Yes.  Also, there is a problem with the particular revision of the
AIC-7880 SCSI controller that is in this box.  Justin Gibbs just
committed a work-around fix a day or two ago.  So make sure you have a
fully up-to-date -current kernel in addition to the firmware upgrade
on the disk drives.
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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