From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 28 13:42:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67C015705 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA22259; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:40:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199911282140.OAA22259@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: ahc problems (with vinum?) In-Reply-To: <14401.33509.371420.557945@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "Nov 28, 1999 02:30:45 pm" To: dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:40:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: jgreco@ns.sol.net (Joe Greco), stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gilbert wrote... > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry writes: > > Kenneth> For instance, I had two Quantum Atlas II's on one Ultra-Wide > Kenneth> chain, and was able to get timeouts and errors from the > Kenneth> Adaptec driver on a pretty regular basis. > > Kenneth> The problem was not cabling or termination, but rather bogus > Kenneth> drive firmware. The drives would just kinda lockup under > Kenneth> high bus traffic. The problem went away when I upgraded the > Kenneth> firmware. > > ... these are all Atlas IV's... is there updated firmware for them? > How do you upgrade the firmware on SCSI devices? Quantum has a utility that'll do it, although it generally takes a bootable DOS floppy and ASPI drivers for your SCSI controllers. I haven't heard of any problems with the Atlas IV that would cause anything other than Quantum's usual bogus queue full behavior, but of course that doesn't mean that there aren't any. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message