From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 16:37:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D82616A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:37:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server2.troikatek.com (server2.troikatek.com [66.135.32.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F046743D3F for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:37:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aheyn@jmsent.com) Received: (qmail 29171 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2005 17:31:54 -0000 Received: from ns.jmsent.com (HELO AREILLPC) (66.9.27.146) by server2.troikatek.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2005 17:31:53 -0000 From: "Andrew Heyn" To: Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:38:00 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20050203110917.N76517@sasami.jurai.net> Subject: RE: Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:37:35 -0000 Hi, The controller is 'certified' to work with linux... so I will try a scrap install to see if it a driver issue. It would be a good idea to prove whether or not the error is caused by a difference in those two drivers. How could I use this CMD_SENSE_DRV_STATUS to provide you with more debugging information? After those errors, ./idacontrol show still shows the controller uptime's unchanged. I dont believe the embedded controller has any lights...If it does, I dont know where they are located. I am waiting for some compaq drives to be shipped to me, so I can see whether or not the drives interaction with the controller is at fault. I noticed that with 6-CURRENT the machine doesn't crash anymore and reboot when the controller stops responding. It tended to before... Instead, whatever program that caused the problem hangs on a kernel function forever, and subsequent reads/writes kinda work...in the same manner as they did(n't) before. Thanks for your time and replies, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Matthew N. Dodd [mailto:mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:18 AM To: Andrew Heyn Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote: > Now that its confirmed that it's a firmware crash... What can I do > about this? Could it be the driver? I don't see how it could be the driver (feel free to prove me wrong though). It would be interesting to use the CMD_SENSE_DRV_STATUS command and see if any of the error counters are increasing. > or the drives giving an unexpected response? Can HP/Compaq help me? I'm guessing they'd tell you to use Compaq drives. -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00