From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Feb 12 7:33: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0C837B491; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:32:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de id f1CFWuY04246; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:32:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:32:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with AIC7770-based controller on -current Message-ID: <20010212163256.A84752@ida.interface-business.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org References: <20010209182116.P822@ida.interface-business.de> <200102121509.f1CF9wO21693@aslan.scsiguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102121509.f1CF9wO21693@aslan.scsiguy.com>; from gibbs@scsiguy.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:09:58AM -0700 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Organization: interface systems GmbH, Dresden Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >after upgrading this old EISA machine to -current (as of a couple of > >days ago), it no longer works. First there was a typo in eisaconf.c > >(i just committed a fix), but now that it at least scans the EISA bus > >again, the ahc driver no longer wants to talk to my disks. > > Are you still having problems with this? My last commit to -stable > should have corrected a fairly serious issue with twin eisa controllers. Problems vanished after CVS upgrading this morning. Do you want me to try those fixes on -current anyway? Well, almost. After reading a bunch of old commit mails, i'm now fairly positive the problem is not ahc(4)- but SMPNG-related. Whatever it has been, one of the commits made at last weekend must have fixed something like interrupt routing for this old Saturn-based dual Pentium machine. The kernel now at least boots again. (For the folks on -smp: before, it timed out at any access to the SCSI controller, so i couldn't even get a single-user shell to run.) Still, the SMPNG kernel is anything else but stable, but that doesn't seem to be unexpected. :) It sometimes panics right before even displaying the kernel's copyright notice, the crash then happens somehewhere in module_register(). At other occasions, it crashed later during fsck, or even later while running /etc/rc, so i resorted to build a kernel without SMP now in order to get a working environment at all. I'll see to cvs update again in order to not stumble across problems that have already been fixed since. [Reminder: i'm not subscribed to either list, so if you want me to see the replies, retain me in the Cc list, please.] -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message