Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:06:12 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dump card state: amd64 + 300G seagate + Adaptec AIC7902 + 5.3-stable Message-ID: <41FFEF44.30204@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050201210317.GA26048@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <20050201190646.GA18651@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <41FFD47B.2000505@freebsd.org> <41FFD9EE.3070204@FreeBSD.org> <41FFDBA8.8070501@freebsd.org> <20050201210317.GA26048@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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Mike Hunter wrote: > On Feb 01, "Scott Long" wrote: > > >>Ade Lovett wrote: >> >> >>>Scott Long wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The firmware on two of those drives is dangerouly old and broken. I'd >>>>suggest contacting Seagate for an update, and keep a fire extinguisher >>>>and some holy water nearby until they are upgraded. >>> >>>Newer firmware doesn't make any difference to this particular problem. >>> >>>The combination of U320, Adaptec, Seagate, and ahd is very, very prone >>>to weird and wonderful warnings, errors, failures, lockups, and general >>>crapness. >>> >>>Somewhat unsurprisingly, things seem to be significantly worse with >>>integrated aic7902 chipsets on the motherboard, than with the equivalent >>>PCI-X cards. >>> >>>By all means update the firmware -- particularly in this case -- but >>>don't expect it to be the Holy Grail. You *might* get lucky, but the >>>odds are significantly stacked against you. >> >>Some versions of the Adaptec U320 chips work better with cables, and >>some work better with backplanes. In general, none work well with >>anything that isn't very simple and clean. 68->80 pin converters are >>very problematic, for example, as are cable->backplane junctions. In >>any case, whomever at Seagate tech support is making wild claims about >>64-bit support and FreeBSD should be ignored. > > > Thanks to everybody for their replies. I will plan to get firmware from > seagate and flash all the drives. I'm downloading knoppix to use > seagate's utility...or will it work under fbsd? (It's a moot point since I > have a amd64 build without 32bit abi compat.) > > Is it possible to flash the onboard adaptec "card"? I haven't found any > info on how to do that if it is. > > Sucks to be me! > > Mike The Adaptec SCSI controllers don't have an on-board firmware. BIOS updates and the associated flash tools are available from the website. Scott
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