From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 6 14:59: 6 2003 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 EA9FF37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tiscali.it (mail-6.tiscali.it [195.130.225.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9290E43F3F for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:59:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fcasadei@inwind.it) Received: from goku.kasby (217.133.209.128) by mail.tiscali.it (6.5.032) id 3E662164000BDCB8 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:59:00 +0100 Received: (qmail 1319 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Mar 2003 22:58:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:58:37 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase and other weirdness Message-ID: <20030306225837.GA1277@goku.kasby> Mail-Followup-To: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030228235031.GE5033@grummit.biaix.org> <20030301094934.GA547@goku.kasby> <20030306153355.A12907@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030306153355.A12907@curry.mchp.siemens.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:33:55PM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > (I assume the cabling/termination has been checked already.) >=20 > I had bus problems with my DNES until I upgraded the firmware to: >=20 > da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device=20 >=20 > In general, I have often seen bus problems when a lot of different > devices are hanging on the same SCSI bus and some drives are being > hit really hard. They always went away with a new fw, especially > on my IBM DDYS drives. The Plextor fw seems a bit old as well (at > least compared to my PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.13) but I don't know > if the 32TS uses the same as the 40TS. >=20 > I have written a program to upgrade the firmware on IBM and Plextor > (and some other devices) under FreeBSD in case you are interested... > However, IMO one should play with the fw only in case of problems > and not just to get lastest version... >=20 > -Andre >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > end of the original message I'm having SCSI-related problems on the home PC, which has run fine for thr= ee years now whithout being hardware-upgraded. I update the system on a regular basis, though (last buildworld/installword was on Thu Dec 26 2002). The IBM drive fitness test showed that hard drives are ok. The error seems = to appear randomly, whithout particular conditions (load avg, used mem, progra= ms running, etc.). A couple of days ago the SCSI bus has been reset five consecutive times! Is= it time to change my AHA2940 or this has nothing to do with the SCSI controlle= r? Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Z9KdfsM3XxZOsXsRAlWnAJ9tvnwDgBhqXs47wK4vOcjLcPVtrQCgiEoW UK8iuch17OHtA7MyYDpd6qc= =7vCC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message