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Date:      Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:53:27 -0700 
From:      "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>
To:        "'attila!'" <attila@hun.org>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>, "Justin T.Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Subject:   RE: aic7890/91 controller
Message-ID:  <AD1F046251DCD311BA6F00204840376704A21124@aimexc02.corp.adaptec.com>

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> 
>     The aic 7890/91 is a dual 160 MB controller.

No, the 7890/91 is 80MB/s max.

>     Adaptec's
>     documentation expliciely states that the bus speed is the
>     rate of the _slowest_ device on the channel.

No it does not.

>     Did you try
>     placing the cd on the B channel or vice-versa?  Tyan, in
>     their 2642 SMP manual, recommends that the faster (and
>     boot) drives be placed on the B bus. 

I can't imagine why it would say this.  Can you provide a
reference?

>     This worked fine for me through builds of 31 Dec; I
>     discovered with the 20 Feb slice that you could no
>     longer use both channels with CURRENT. the da drives
>     would boot from A or B, but when on B, the kernel would
>     not recognize the DVDRAM on A.  The SCSI firmware
>     utility always reported all drives correctly on both
>     channels.

This is the first I've heard of this problem.  Can you provide
more details?  Did you file a PR back then?  Did you post
any mail to the freebsd-scsi list?

>     I tried every combination of hints; and finally went to
>     a separate controller (Tekram DC395U) for the slow
>     peripherals. Hints worked on assigning cd0 and cd1 until
>     27 Sep build and now only block them moving the devices
>     to cd2 and cd3 in the order found.

Hints were fixed on RELENG_4 on September 22.  Can you provide
more information?

> 
>     I'm going to add GEOM in a few minutes --if it stays
>     stable for a while, I'll go through the cable swapping
>     and hints routine again to try and control all devices
>     with the dual controller. I don't have any non-SCSI
>     devices.
> 
> Sent: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:08:45 -0700 by Eric Hodel
> 
> + ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 
> 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xdd000000-0xdd000fff irq 7 at device 6.0 on pci0
> + aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> + ...
> + Initializing GEOMetry subsystem
> + IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
> + ad0: 1033MB <Maxtor 81080 A3> [2100/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
> + ad2: 2014MB <QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY2160A> [4092/16/63] at 
> ata1-master WDMA2
> + Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> + cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> + cd0: <TEAC CD-ROM CD-532S 3.0A> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> + cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16)
> + cd0: cd present [355664 x 2048 byte records]
> + da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> + da0: <QUANTUM VIKING II 4.5WLS 4110> Fixed Direct Access 
> SCSI-2 device
> + da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), 
> Tagged Queueing Enabled
> + da0: 4350MB (8910423 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 554C)
> + da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> + da1: <FUJITSU M2915S-512 0180> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> + da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged 
> Queueing Enabled
> + da1: 2075MB (4250695 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 264C)
> 
> 
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