Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 00:30:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: i386/369: (AHA1542A problems) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950428001403.115A-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504280032.UAA06290@hda.com>
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I've never replied to two people at once before! This is neat! On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Peter Dufault wrote: > J Wunsch writes: > > > > I'm also using an AHA1540A in one machine. I do have some problems > > when using this machine as an NFS server, but the AHA itself appears > > to work. (E.g., i can start compiling the world on the machine > > itself. Last time i tried, i gave up after ~ 48 hours, it's only > > a 386sx/16 :-) > > > > My aha is: > > aha-1540a > > assy 416006-03 Rev D (on the PCB) > > 420504-00 C > > MCODE E7BC (on the firmware ROM) Okay, here is my card: (didn't worry too much about the BIOS) AHA1542A ASSY 416006-01 Rev D Firmware: 420504-00 C MCODE E7BC AIC: 420300 E 9001 Settings: Synchronous negotiation OFF (default) Diagnostics OFF (default) SCSI parity checking enabled (default) SCSI address 7 (default) DMA channel 5 (default) IRQ line 11 (default) DMA transfer spped 5.0 MB/s (default) AT BIOS wait states disabled (default) AT port address 330H (default) AT BIOS address 0DC000H (default) automatic Request Sense disabled (???) BIOS enabled (default) > > I guess the most important part is not the PCB revision, but the > > firmware revision. Some very old AHA154XA's are said to have > > disfunctional scatter/gather, perhaps your adapter is one of them? I think maybe my adapter is too old. :) Time to move into the '90's, I reckon. :) > Is anyone else having AHA154x problems? I'm using a 1542C and a 1542B > and did some real heavy testing last weekend (four days of constant file > system thrashing while alternately freezing and thawing the SCSI > bus) without any corruption. > > I'm pretty sure that the bug submitter was using this host adapter > without any problems earlier. This is correct. Also, another thing I forgot to mention, I was successfully running the late February SNAP, until I moved back to 2.0R when I needed to use gdb. So, something happened between late February and late March. (I'm not above blaming my controller.) Marc. -- You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. - Edward Flaherty
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