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Date:      Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:31:24 -0500
From:      "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>
To:        Tsoi <tsoi@xocah.dhs.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
Message-ID:  <20001208103124.A30857@stat.Duke.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20001208150217.A34891@xocah.dhs.org>; from tsoi@xocah.dhs.org on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:02:17PM %2B0900
References:  <20001208150217.A34891@xocah.dhs.org>

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Tsoi stated:
: 
: I have a problem with adptec scsi adapter(maybe seagate scsi hdd).
: The system is halt, or self reboot.
: 
: And the devices from boot dmesg,
: 
: ahc0: <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
: 0xdd101000-0xdd101fff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0
: aic7892: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
: 
: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
: da0: <SEAGATE ST39236LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
: da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
: Enabled
: da0: 8761MB (17942584 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1116C)
: 
: And the log like this, (this time is 'self reboot')
: 
: Dec  7 17:32:27 daemon /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Invalidating pack
:
: Any suggestions will be welcomed.

You might consider looking through the archives of freebsd-scsi
list ... There was a drive firmware issue between the ahc driver
and seagate cheetahs (I believe) that resulted in this.  One fix
was to turn off write caching in the controller bios.  The permanent
was to get a firmware update from seagate; however, the following
email message outlines a potential work around:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=935156+937956+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-stable/20000806.freebsd-stable


HTH,
S
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Sean O'Connell                                       sean@stat.Duke.EDU


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