From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 21:06:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322CC16A4CE; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:06:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9965A43D41; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:06:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.19] (ibook-nai.samsco.home [192.168.254.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j11L6Hks001494; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:06:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <41FFEF44.30204@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:06:12 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hunter References: <20050201190646.GA18651@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <41FFD47B.2000505@freebsd.org> <41FFD9EE.3070204@FreeBSD.org> <41FFDBA8.8070501@freebsd.org> <20050201210317.GA26048@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050201210317.GA26048@ack.Berkeley.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org cc: Ade Lovett Subject: Re: dump card state: amd64 + 300G seagate + Adaptec AIC7902 + 5.3-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:06:26 -0000 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