Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:44:40 +0100 From: Nick Taylor <nt@dataskill.co.uk> To: Ivan Kohler <ivan@iqualify.com>, aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW Message-ID: <37831378.92571E9C@dataskill.co.uk> References: <19990706155611.A20797@ivan.iqualify.com>
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--------------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 <ivan@iqualify.com> > > 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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> It was the software drivers for the 3940 that I was referring to, not the cards themselves :-) <p>Nick <p>Ivan Kohler wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am using 3940s (specifically, two 3940UWs and a 3940AUW). I don't think <br>all 3940s are broken. On the other hand, had I not watched a hang-on-boot <br>problem follow a card between several machines (but only with 2.2.10 <br>kernel - the "broken" card worked fine with 2.2.7 kernels), I may not have <br>sent it back and gotten a working one. <p>On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:32AM +0100, Nick Taylor wrote: <br>> Hi <br>> <br>> This sounds suspiciously like the problem that I have been having with 3940s. I believe that <br>> the current aic drivers are broken for 3940s - As soon as I try to use 2 hds at the same time <br>> (either on the same or different channels) my machine hangs. I am currently using only one <br>> drive on the 3940 and the others on a 2940 which is fine. <br>> <br>> Hoping for someone to address this problem soon. <br>> <br>> Nick <br>> ---- <br>> <br>> Jeffrey Veiss wrote: <br>> <br>> > Calling all SCSI experts: <br>> > <br>> > I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card. To start off, <br>> > here's the specs: <br>> > <br>> > Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16 <br>> > AMD K6 233MHz CPU <br>> > 128M SDRAM <br>> > Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE drive (4 part VFAT) <br>> > Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT, 4 part ext2, 1 part swap) <br>> > See below for more info <br>> > <br>> > The Problem: <br>> > <br>> > I was happily computing along, backing up my laptop to the /home partition <br>> > on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using rdist when fuzzy restarted. <br>> > This happened three times before I decided to do something else and work <br>> > on why later. The next day (I don't remember what i was doing), fuzzy <br>> > was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the / partition (sda5). As <br>> > it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with no errors. Every reboot <br>> > has the same result. The only major change to the system was a <br>> > motherboard BIOS update. <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Things I tried: <br>> > <br>> > o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue root floppies and running <br>> > fsck on sda5. <br>> > <br>> > o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue root floppies and running <br>> > fsck on sda5. <br>> > <br>> > o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount sda5 but if I poke <br>> > around too much (cd's & ls's), it eventually crashes/reboots. <br>> > <br>> > o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions, but poking around too much <br>> > eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing each partition causes a crash). <br>> > <br>> > o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't cause a crash. <br>> > <br>> > o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus B termination to Enabled. <br>> > <br>> > o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose and it still rebooted. <br>> > <br>> > o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original version and it still <br>> > crashes. <br>> > <br>> > o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine. I did a thorough scandisk on <br>> > all EIDE & SCSI partitions with no problem. Both CD-ROM's work fine. <br>> > <br>> > o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago <br>> > and except when I had to turn off wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip <br>> > drives, has been working fine. <br>> > <br>> > At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Possibilities include <br>> > hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or a SCSI BIOS <br>> > mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work? (No really, why <br>> > does Windows 98 work? :-) ) <br>> > <br>> > Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated! <br>> > <br>> > Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at <br>> > jsv@sirveiss.com. Thank you very much! <br>> > <br>> > Jeffrey Veiss (jsv@NOSPAMsirveiss.com) 13 Lynn Court <br>> > Network Engineer/System Administrator Somerville, NJ 08876 <br>> > Sir Veiss, Inc. (908) 431-1318 <br>> > <br>> > ---------------------------------------- <br>> > Here's some other useful info: <br>> > <br>> > Significant IRQ's: <br>> > <br>> > 3 COM2 <br>> > 4 COM1 <br>> > 5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32 <br>> > 7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25 <br>> > 10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25 <br>> > 11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet <br>> > 14 Enhanced IDE Bus <br>> > 15 USB <br>> > NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2 <p>----- End forwarded message ----- <p>-- <br>Ivan Kohler <ivan@iqualify.com> <p>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org <br>with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message</blockquote> <pre>-- Nick Taylor <A HREF="mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk">mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk</A> Dataskill, London, England <A HREF="mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org">mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org</A> HOME OF REFLEXOLOGY <A HREF="http://www.reflexology.org">http://www.reflexology.org</A></pre>; </html> --------------DED290A54C0120E92409CFFA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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