From owner-aic7xxx Wed Jul 7 1:45:18 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from ronly.co.uk (rongw1.ronly.co.uk [194.126.70.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2905214C99 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nt@dataskill.co.uk) Received: by ronly.co.uk id m111nKO-00013nC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #3); Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:45:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from dsl1.dataskill.co.uk(10.1.1.1) by rongw1.ronly.co.uk via smap (V1.3) id sma030610; Wed Jul 7 09:44:54 1999 Received: from dataskill.co.uk ([10.1.1.51]) by dataskill.co.uk with esmtp id m111nJo-000H4OC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1); Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:44:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37831378.92571E9C@dataskill.co.uk> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:44:40 +0100 From: Nick Taylor Organization: Dataskill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Kohler , aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW References: <19990706155611.A20797@ivan.iqualify.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DED290A54C0120E92409CFFA" Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------DED290A54C0120E92409CFFA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It was the software drivers for the 3940 that I was referring to, not the cards themselves :-) Nick Ivan Kohler wrote: > I am using 3940s (specifically, two 3940UWs and a 3940AUW). I don't think > all 3940s are broken. On the other hand, had I not watched a hang-on-boot > problem follow a card between several machines (but only with 2.2.10 > kernel - the "broken" card worked fine with 2.2.7 kernels), I may not have > sent it back and gotten a working one. > > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:32AM +0100, Nick Taylor wrote: > > Hi > > > > This sounds suspiciously like the problem that I have been having with 3940s. I believe that > > the current aic drivers are broken for 3940s - As soon as I try to use 2 hds at the same time > > (either on the same or different channels) my machine hangs. I am currently using only one > > drive on the 3940 and the others on a 2940 which is fine. > > > > Hoping for someone to address this problem soon. > > > > Nick > > ---- > > > > Jeffrey Veiss wrote: > > > > > Calling all SCSI experts: > > > > > > I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card. To start off, > > > here's the specs: > > > > > > Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16 > > > AMD K6 233MHz CPU > > > 128M SDRAM > > > Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE drive (4 part VFAT) > > > Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT, 4 part ext2, 1 part swap) > > > See below for more info > > > > > > The Problem: > > > > > > I was happily computing along, backing up my laptop to the /home partition > > > on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using rdist when fuzzy restarted. > > > This happened three times before I decided to do something else and work > > > on why later. The next day (I don't remember what i was doing), fuzzy > > > was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the / partition (sda5). As > > > it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with no errors. Every reboot > > > has the same result. The only major change to the system was a > > > motherboard BIOS update. > > > > > > > > > Things I tried: > > > > > > o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue root floppies and running > > > fsck on sda5. > > > > > > o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue root floppies and running > > > fsck on sda5. > > > > > > o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount sda5 but if I poke > > > around too much (cd's & ls's), it eventually crashes/reboots. > > > > > > o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions, but poking around too much > > > eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing each partition causes a crash). > > > > > > o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't cause a crash. > > > > > > o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus B termination to Enabled. > > > > > > o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose and it still rebooted. > > > > > > o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original version and it still > > > crashes. > > > > > > o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine. I did a thorough scandisk on > > > all EIDE & SCSI partitions with no problem. Both CD-ROM's work fine. > > > > > > o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago > > > and except when I had to turn off wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip > > > drives, has been working fine. > > > > > > At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Possibilities include > > > hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or a SCSI BIOS > > > mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work? (No really, why > > > does Windows 98 work? :-) ) > > > > > > Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated! > > > > > > Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at > > > jsv@sirveiss.com. Thank you very much! > > > > > > Jeffrey Veiss (jsv@NOSPAMsirveiss.com) 13 Lynn Court > > > Network Engineer/System Administrator Somerville, NJ 08876 > > > Sir Veiss, Inc. (908) 431-1318 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > Here's some other useful info: > > > > > > Significant IRQ's: > > > > > > 3 COM2 > > > 4 COM1 > > > 5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32 > > > 7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25 > > > 10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25 > > > 11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet > > > 14 Enhanced IDE Bus > > > 15 USB > > > NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2 > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Ivan Kohler > > 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 --------------DED290A54C0120E92409CFFA Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It was the software drivers for the 3940 that I was referring to, not the cards themselves :-)

Nick

Ivan Kohler wrote:

I am using 3940s (specifically, two 3940UWs and a 3940AUW).  I don't think
all 3940s are broken.  On the other hand, had I not watched a hang-on-boot
problem follow a card between several machines (but only with 2.2.10
kernel - the "broken" card worked fine with 2.2.7 kernels), I may not have
sent it back and gotten a working one.

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:32AM +0100, Nick Taylor wrote:
> Hi
>
> This sounds suspiciously like the problem that I have been having with 3940s. I believe that
> the current aic drivers are broken for 3940s - As soon as I try to use 2 hds at the same time
> (either on the same or different channels) my machine hangs. I am currently using only one
> drive on the 3940 and the others on a 2940 which is fine.
>
> Hoping for someone to address this problem soon.
>
> Nick
> ----
>
> Jeffrey Veiss wrote:
>
> > Calling all SCSI experts:
> >
> > I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card.  To start off,
> > here's the specs:
> >
> >    Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16
> >    AMD K6 233MHz CPU
> >    128M SDRAM
> >    Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE drive (4 part VFAT)
> >    Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT, 4 part ext2, 1 part swap)
> >    See below for more info
> >
> > The Problem:
> >
> >    I was happily computing along, backing up my laptop to the /home partition
> >    on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using rdist when fuzzy restarted.
> >    This happened three times before I decided to do something else and work
> >    on why later.  The next day (I don't remember what i was doing), fuzzy
> >    was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the / partition (sda5).  As
> >    it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with no errors.  Every reboot
> >    has the same result.  The only major change to the system was a
> >    motherboard BIOS update.
> >
> >
> > Things I tried:
> >
> >    o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue root floppies and running
> >      fsck on sda5.
> >
> >    o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue root floppies and running
> >      fsck on sda5.
> >
> >    o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount sda5 but if I poke
> >      around too much (cd's & ls's), it eventually crashes/reboots.
> >
> >    o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions, but poking around too much
> >      eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing each partition causes a crash).
> >
> >    o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't cause a crash.
> >
> >    o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus B termination to Enabled.
> >
> >    o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose and it still rebooted.
> >
> >    o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original version and it still
> >      crashes.
> >
> >    o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine.  I did a thorough scandisk on
> >      all EIDE & SCSI partitions with no problem.  Both CD-ROM's work fine.
> >
> >    o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago
> >      and except when I had to turn off wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip
> >      drives, has been working fine.
> >
> > At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next.  Possibilities include
> > hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or a SCSI BIOS
> > mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work?  (No really, why
> > does Windows 98 work? :-)  )
> >
> > Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated!
> >
> > Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at
> > jsv@sirveiss.com.  Thank you very much!
> >
> > Jeffrey Veiss (jsv@NOSPAMsirveiss.com)      13 Lynn Court
> > Network Engineer/System Administrator       Somerville, NJ 08876
> > Sir Veiss, Inc.                             (908) 431-1318
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Here's some other useful info:
> >
> > Significant IRQ's:
> >
> >  3     COM2
> >  4     COM1
> >  5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32
> >  7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
> > 10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
> > 11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet
> > 14     Enhanced IDE Bus
> > 15     USB
> > NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2

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