From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 18:57:08 2005 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 51CE216A4CE; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:57:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D913043D53; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:57:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.1.108] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0)j3RIupHt074446 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:56:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <426FE073.4000102@palisadesys.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:56:51 -0500 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Olzheim References: <426D481D.7080502@palisadesys.com> <426DB02B.4050807@FreeBSD.org> <20050426092631.GA50783@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050426092631.GA50783@stack.nl> X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: Ade Lovett Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3p6-5.4RC3, Supermicro X6DHR-8G, Dual3.6GHzXeons,Adaptec aic7902 SCSI interface doesn't work in UP kernel 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: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:57:08 -0000 Marc Olzheim wrote: >On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:06:19PM -0700, Ade Lovett wrote: > > >>>SuperMicro [...] Seagate [...] >>>on-board aic7902 >>> >>> >>and, from your dmesg output: >> >>da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device >>da0: 320.000MB/s transfers [...] >> >>At an absolute minimum, have the existing drive swapped out for an >>ST373453LC model, making VERY certain that the firmware is rev 0006 -- >>prior revisions WILL corrupt your data, set fire to your cat, and >>otherwise ruin your entire life -- and that's before they've actually >>spun up. >> >> > >I've got about 25 similar configurations running. Apart from the initial >bootup card state dump, they work ok. >I've flashed all Seagate drives to bios version 0007 to get it stable. > >Marc > > We used to have some trouble with these Seagate drives and Adaptec controllers with our older hardware (Supermicro X5DPL-8GM 533MHz FSB motherboards, I believe), but we worked around it by turning off packetized mode in the Adaptec BIOS. I've priced the ST373453LC, and it's 67% more than the ST373207LC ($311 vs. $519 at newegg, for example). These new Supermicro X6DHR-8G 800MHz FSB systems seem to be working OK (even under load) when running a kernel with SMP enabled. I offered my configuration in case jhb or someone else would be interested in what seems to be an interrupt routing problem. Thanks for your advice, Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.