From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 18:29:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C646737B401; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mobile.hub.org (u134n133.eastlink.ca [24.224.134.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E510E43F3F; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by mobile.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B3FDC9C; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:29:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25003C99; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:29:10 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:29:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Justin T. Gibbs" In-Reply-To: <2849575408.1059363406@aslan.scsiguy.com> Message-ID: <20030728222854.O17191@hub.org> References: <2849575408.1059363406@aslan.scsiguy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AIC7902 w/ seagate U320 drive issue on releng-4 (and current) X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:29:14 -0000 Just as an FYI, we just downloaded the 006 firmware this afternoon ... On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > FYI, i've solved this problem for me by moving to > > firmware version 5 on the ST318453LW (U320 15KRPM 18GB) > > seagate drive. > > This is exactly what I was going to suggest. 0004 is known > bad in packetized operation. Your test to drop the speed to > 160MB/s was a good thought, but for the 790X controllers, we > will still attempt to run with packetized protocol, assuming > the device supports it, even when you reduce the negotiated > rate. You can disable packetized protocol in SCSI-Select which > would probably have allowed you to limp along until you got > updated firmware. > > Sadly, 0005 is not perfect. I have seen situations where under > hight tag load 0005 still drops trasactions. I believe that > Seagate has a fix for this, but it has yet to be put into > release level firmware. You might want to touch base with > them in another month to see if they have released a follow > on to 0005. > > -- > Justin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org