From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 13:48:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00544 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA00537 Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id XAA04773; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:30:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA01631; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:07:27 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:07:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Satoshi Asami , current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx driver and parity error problems In-Reply-To: <199603311827.KAA10284@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Could it be a power supply problem? Or perhaps your Atlas is causing > SCSI bus noise? Are other 7880 owners seeing this as well with the > -current driver? I'm running two SCSI disks on a AHA 2940 with parity checking enabled. I have absolutely no problems at all. FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar 31 11:48:28 MET DST 1996 root@knobel.gun.de:/disk2/src/sys/compile/KNOBEL CPU: Pentium (99.46-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5 Features=0x1bf real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 31338496 (30604K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 2 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 2 on pci0:7 pci0:7: Intel Corporation, device=0x1230, class=storage (ide) [no driver assigned] vga0 rev 0 int a irq 12 on pci0:10 ahc0 rev 3 int a irq 11 on pci0:12 ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM XP34301 1051" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4106MB (8410200 512 byte sectors) sd0(ahc0:0:0): with 4076 cyls, 20 heads, and an average 103 sectors/track (ahc0:1:0): "FUJITSU M2694ES-512 8139" type 0 fixed SCSI 1 sd1(ahc0:1:0): Direct-Access 1033MB (2117025 512 byte sectors) sd1(ahc0:1:0): with 1819 cyls, 15 heads, and an average 77 sectors/track (ahc0:6:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3601TA 0725" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ahc0:6:0): CD-ROM cd0(ahc0:6:0): NOT READY asc:4,1 cd0(ahc0:6:0): Logical unit is in process of becoming ready Check proper termination, don't use the termination of a CD-Rom (this caused trouble here) or best use a separate active termination ! And make a test, not to connect SCSI devices internal and external on the same SCSI controller. Heard from people, that this may cause trouble as well (if the SCSI controller is in the middle of the SCSI "chain"). That's it, good luck Andreas /// - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMV70D/MLpmkD/U+FAQFaRAP+L+T1F1iH4ickdSafkwhg4Sk58dH+05U/ 6nq2A2O295sakPNCpzjqjwtYxoDmrk6W78R5Fr3DofpQDpsiHfHlTvkeTpbgkaBm rCuI28b8GDNmMO6asZFEFnpHbwP4ky7l80eEYGtah1yBDVpmq79Vdm8WOedFT0hY m8/MRrfqOIc= =J2X6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----