Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:22:53 -0500 From: "Kenneth P. Persing" <ken@intac.com> To: "aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG" <aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: dledford@redhat.com Subject: aic7xxx v. 5.1.11 on 2.2.1 broken for plain old vanilla 2940. Message-ID: <36C7147D.B9CD7E69@intac.com>
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Hey folks,
If I have missed something obvious, please let me know (like if
there has been a fundamental change in the way the aic7xxx driver works
between 5.1.10 and 5.1.11, and the it is necessary to pass it a command
from the kernel, or the like). However, I am running a plain old 2940
with three scsi harddrives. Two Seagate ST32430N 2 gig harddives, and
one Connor CFP2105S. It also has a tandberg tape drive, a plextor 12x,
and an hp cd writer. I've been using all the 2.2.0 pre kernels, and
everything has worked fine. After I got 2.2.1, before compiling it, I
upgraded the aic7xxx driver from 5.1.10 to 5.1.11. Everything began
booting fine. It mounted all the drives on my system, but after initd
loaded, and it entered runlevel 5, when it began to load the system
loggers the scsi bus froze. The led hooked up to the 2940 went on solid,
but the HD lights were all off. I then entered an endless loop of scsi
timeout, and attempted bus resets.
Believing this was a problem with my hardware, I then began checking
the termination on all of my devices, the termination was all correct. I
then disconnected every device but one hard drive (I turned on the
termination of that drive and put in last on the cable) Time out errors
still plagued me. I've done these test on both a 2940 with bios
revision 1.11 and 1.16, same problem. However, previously, running 5.1.9
everything has worked great, similarly when I compiled the 2.2.1 kernel
without upgrading the aic driver from 5.1.10 to 5.1.11, it worked also.
This all leads me to believe that something has changed between
revisions 5.1.10 and 5.1.11 that messes up the support for the plain old
2940.
If you have any questions about my system, or if there are any other
tests you would like me to run to help fix this problem, please let me
know.
Thank you,
Kenneth P. Persing
ken@intac.com
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