Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 14:18:05 +0100 From: Nick Taylor <nt@dataskill.co.uk> To: Harald Grabow <hgrabow@volvox.mayn.de>, aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious Trouble with AHA-2940 and new Driver Message-ID: <3782020C.AC2199AA@dataskill.co.uk> References: <7KK4qUH7QkB@volvox.mayn.de>
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--------------F8DF205B5D5A9E7BAE77F2D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Looks to me like the adaptel driver has moved on quite a bit since your Debian dist. From my experience there were bugs before but 5.1.17 seems to work for me (apart from on 3940s yawn). Look at Doug's site at http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html for the patches All the best Nick --- Harald Grabow wrote: > Hi. > > Although this would make this Mail redundant, I deeply hope this is a > known Problem. > > Since several Days I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on my System, with > little success. > Since I am NOT a Kernel Developer, I have found no way to get around this > myself. > > The Problem persists with all Kernel versions *HIGHER* 2.0.34 and the AHA- > 2940 FAST-SCSI Adapter w/ NVRAM, BIOS Version 1.21 (the only one I have) > To me it looks like the almost-complete-rewrite made since then has broken > something in the Area of the Sequencer. > > While reading this i realize it sounds like a SCSI-Newbie-Insufficent- > Termination-Or-Something-Problem, I may assure you it is *not*. > > - Driver downloads 10 more Sequencer Code Bytes than usual (409 on > 2.0.34, 419 on higher versions) > - Last SCSI Disc getting reflected 3 times. > - On Startup, I get timeouts and bus resets, then the kernel sometimes > actually boots; then occasional bus resets while working, making work > impossible; umount mostly halts the machine. > > Output of /proc/scsi/scsi for 2.0.34: > > Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: Model: DFRSS2F Rev: 4B4B Type: Direct-Access > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3701TA Rev: 3615 Type: CD-ROM > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 > Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-R55S Rev: 1.0J Type: CD-ROM > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34520N Rev: 1281 Type: Direct-Access > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Output of /proc/scsi/aic7xxx for 2.0.34: > > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.0.19/3.2.4 > Compile Options: AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15 > AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Adapter Support Enabled > Check below to see which > devices use tagged queueing > AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Enabled (This is no longer an option) > AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled > Adapter Configuration: > SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter > Narrow Controller > PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xffaef000 > Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled > IRQ: 11 > SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 1, > Allocated 30, HW 16, Page 255 > Interrupts: 4033 > BIOS Control Word: 0x19b6 > Adapter Control Word: 0x0018 > Extended Translation: Enabled > Disconnect Enable Flags: 0x00ff > Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000 > Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000 > Default Tag Queue Depth: 8 > Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0: > {255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255} > Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0: > {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1} > [Stats deleted] > > By no means I managed to get this information with the new Driver, but > IMHO that shouldn't matter anyway. > > I tried 2.0.36 as well as 2.2.5 Kernel versions, both no go. > > I would be very pleased if this Problem could be dealt with, and would > like to know if other people are experiencing the same trouble with their > 2940, and how they got around it. > > Many thanks in advance! I am under pressure with this one, friends. > > ben > ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message -- Nick Taylor mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk Dataskill, London, England mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org HOME OF REFLEXOLOGY http://www.reflexology.org --------------F8DF205B5D5A9E7BAE77F2D6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi <p>Looks to me like the adaptel driver has moved on quite a bit since your Debian dist. From my experience there were bugs before but 5.1.17 seems to work for me (apart from on 3940s yawn). <p>Look at Doug's site at <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html">http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html</A>; for the patches <p>All the best <p>Nick <br>--- <br> <br>Harald Grabow wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi. <p>Although this would make this Mail redundant, I deeply hope this is a <br>known Problem. <p>Since several Days I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on my System, with <br>little success. <br>Since I am NOT a Kernel Developer, I have found no way to get around this <br>myself. <p>The Problem persists with all Kernel versions *HIGHER* 2.0.34 and the AHA- <br>2940 FAST-SCSI Adapter w/ NVRAM, BIOS Version 1.21 (the only one I have) <br>To me it looks like the almost-complete-rewrite made since then has broken <br>something in the Area of the Sequencer. <p>While reading this i realize it sounds like a SCSI-Newbie-Insufficent- <br>Termination-Or-Something-Problem, I may assure you it is *not*. <p>- Driver downloads 10 more Sequencer Code Bytes than usual (409 on <br> 2.0.34, 419 on higher versions) <br>- Last SCSI Disc getting reflected 3 times. <br>- On Startup, I get timeouts and bus resets, then the kernel sometimes <br> actually boots; then occasional bus resets while working, making work <br> impossible; umount mostly halts the machine. <p>Output of /proc/scsi/scsi for 2.0.34: <p>Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 <br>Vendor: Model: DFRSS2F Rev: 4B4B Type: Direct-Access <br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <br>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 <br>Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3701TA Rev: 3615 Type: CD-ROM <br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <br>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 <br>Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-R55S Rev: 1.0J Type: CD-ROM <br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <br>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 <br>Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34520N Rev: 1281 Type: Direct-Access <br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <p>Output of /proc/scsi/aic7xxx for 2.0.34: <p>Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.0.19/3.2.4 <br>Compile Options: AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15 <br>AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Adapter Support Enabled <br>Check below to see which <br>devices use tagged queueing <br>AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Enabled (This is no longer an option) <br>AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled <br>Adapter Configuration: <br>SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter <br>Narrow Controller <br>PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xffaef000 <br>Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled <br>IRQ: 11 <br>SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 1, <br>Allocated 30, HW 16, Page 255 <br>Interrupts: 4033 <br>BIOS Control Word: 0x19b6 <br>Adapter Control Word: 0x0018 <br>Extended Translation: Enabled <br>Disconnect Enable Flags: 0x00ff <br>Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000 <br>Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000 <br>Default Tag Queue Depth: 8 <br>Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0: <br>{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255} <br>Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0: <br>{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1} <br>[Stats deleted] <p>By no means I managed to get this information with the new Driver, but <br>IMHO that shouldn't matter anyway. <p>I tried 2.0.36 as well as 2.2.5 Kernel versions, both no go. <p>I would be very pleased if this Problem could be dealt with, and would <br>like to know if other people are experiencing the same trouble with their <br>2940, and how they got around it. <p>Many thanks in advance! I am under pressure with this one, friends. <p> ben <br>## CrossPoint v3.11 ## <p>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org <br>with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message</blockquote> <pre>-- Nick Taylor <A HREF="mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk">mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk</A> Dataskill, London, England <A HREF="mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org">mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org</A> HOME OF REFLEXOLOGY <A HREF="http://www.reflexology.org">http://www.reflexology.org</A></pre>; </html> --------------F8DF205B5D5A9E7BAE77F2D6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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