From owner-aic7xxx Thu Oct 1 17:12:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00241 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dledford.dialnet.net (dledford.dialnet.net [206.65.249.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00236 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dledford@dialnet.net) Received: from dialnet.net (dledford@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dledford.dialnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03564; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:12:17 -0500 Message-ID: <36141A61.C82A77F7@dialnet.net> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 19:12:17 -0500 From: Doug Ledford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.123 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Finn Arne Gangstad CC: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: aic7xxx testers needed References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Finn Arne Gangstad wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > The aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre13 driver has just been released. This driver is what > > I consider to be a final release candidate (except the debugging stuff is > > still enabled). I would ask as many people as possible to please try this > > version of the driver out and let me know if you have problems. > > It fails consistently here on Intel R440LX server motherboards with built > in 7880 chips and seagate cheetah disks (all the 5.1.0-pre drivers have > had some problems on these I think), I only have this configuration on > production systems here so I cannot test new drivers very often. > > The system works fine with a 2.1.117 kernel and driver version > 5.0.20 (as defined by AIC7XXX_C_VERSION in aic7xxx.c). > > If you have some speficic things you want me to try I'll try to get it > done today or tomorrow. > > Tested configuration: 2.1.124-pre2 with 5.1.0-pre14 driver, > Intel R-440LX motherboard, no additional cards (built-in scsi & ethernet), > a single PII/300 with 384m ram, one single Seagate Cheetah disk on the > system. > > These error messages were logged (it actually managed to write them to > disk, so the system isn't entirely dead, but during each scsi hang the > system is dead for just over 15 seconds, ie no response to ping, > and the hangs happen VERY frequently). The errors you posted look very much like termination problems. The driver could be munging the termination on your controller. Please try the pre15 patch I just put up and also read the README.aic7xxx file concerning the aic7xxx=stpwlev and aic7xxx=term_override options. If the pre15 patch doesn't solve your problem, then please try to make things work using those two command options. There are descriptions in the README of how to use them. At least that would confirm for me that the problem is termination related. -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message