From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 13:37:55 2003 Return-Path: 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 7BD8A37B42B for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E720D43F93 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3HKZUZ27821; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:35:30 -0700 Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21327; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07156; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:37:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3E9F0FE0.4000703@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:34:40 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Bennett References: <000b01c3051c$ac3b0c80$b3527ad1@zaxis.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01c3051c$ac3b0c80$b3527ad1@zaxis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in aac driver (revisited?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:37:55 -0000 Justin Bennett wrote: > I am posting this as I was researching an issue with my Adaptec 2200s > controller, where I would get command timeouts on the controller under heavy > constant load (either using rsync or ncftp to mirror folders). > > I noticed some interesting information that Scott Long posted about issues > with 4GB RAM and the firmware. Well, I have 4GB of RAM, and a SuperMicro > X5DPL-iGM mobo (intel 7501 chipset), and the adaptec 2200s (dual channel) > controller. So I was wondering if perhaps I am seeing some of the "strange > interactions" that Scott mentioned. > > As I never saw a resolution to this issue, and noticed that (at least in the > archives) Marc G. Fournier never got his situation fully resolved, perhaps I > could lend some debugging help, if indeed the issues are the same (as I have > the box right on hand). > > Scott or Marc (or anyone), can someone get back to me and let me know more > info on this subject, and what I can do to help track down any potential bug > in the aac driver. > > Thanks, > > Justin > You're welcome to cc: or send directly to me as I sometimes miss postings to the freebsd-stable@ mailing list. Yes, I believe that the issues with the 2120S/2200S and >2GB of RAM have been fixed. Marc is seeing some other problems but they are related to the drive enclosure. The fixes for the driver went into the RELENG_4 branch on April 8. Unfortunately this was after the 4.8 release. If you need to install the OS onto an array, try pulling out memory to get under 2GB, then install, then update and rebuild the driver (and rest of the system), then put the RAM back in. Scott