From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 8 7:31:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 07:31:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from eddings.acpub.duke.edu (eddings.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF69A37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 07:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu [152.16.67.15]) by eddings.acpub.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/Duke-5.0.0) with ESMTP id KAA01355; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:31:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB8FVPZ31097; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:31:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sto) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:31:24 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: Tsoi Cc: FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter Message-ID: <20001208103124.A30857@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Connell , Tsoi , FreeBSD stable References: <20001208150217.A34891@xocah.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001208150217.A34891@xocah.dhs.org>; from tsoi@xocah.dhs.org on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:02:17PM +0900 X-Organization: House of Schmutzli X-Kitties: Bitty Maya CJ Keisha Jacob Hopey X-Hound: Bob X-OS-of-Choice: FreeBSD Sender: sto@stat.Duke.EDU Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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: 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 -- 1--------01---------01--------01--------01--------01--------01--------0 Sean O'Connell sean@stat.Duke.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message