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Date:      29 Sep 1999 00:03:08 -0000
From:      vladimir-scsi@math.uic.edu
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   problems with adaptec 2940 cards on 3.3-STABLE
Message-ID:  <19990929000308.19370.qmail@math.uic.edu>

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Dear STABLE users, 
below is a copy of my message to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 
about the problems with adaptec 2940 UW/U2W cards.     I would
appreciate if anyone would have some ideas on what might be
going wrong.   I have observed this problem on 2 machines with
the same hardware, so termination and cables should not be causing
that.

We have a Dell computer with the Phoenix bios and Adaptec 2940 UW
card.  This computer worked fine until I tried to replace Adaptec
2940UW with 2940 U2W.  The card had internal scsi drive connected to
the internal UW connector, and an external U2W LVD drive connected to
the external U2W connector.  Both drives were terminated.  During the
boot, I noticed the following error messages:

Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 8 3f 4 0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:47,0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI parity error field replaceable unit: 3

(scsi id 6 is the external drive).    I played with various settings of the adaptec bios to no avail.

First I thought that the card was bad.  But then I tried replacing it
with 2940 UW Pro (same as 2940UW, but faster transfer rate), and got
an error on boot saying "Someone reset channel A".  This message
repeats indefinitely.

All problems go away if I leave only the internal device on the scsi chain.

Did anyone else have bad experience with these cards,   or do you think this 
combination of adapted card + phoenix bios might be causing problems?  Thanks!

	Vladimir
	vladimir@math.uic.edu

PS a part of the messages file is below (sorry for a long post).

Sep 27 21:59:20 dottie /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
Sep 27 21:59:20 dottie /kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Sep 27 21:59:20 dottie /kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Sep 27 21:59:20 dottie /kernel: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 16 21:02:26 CDT 1999
Sep 27 21:59:20 dottie /kernel: vladimir@dottie.math.uic.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/DOTTIE
Sep 27 21:59:20 dottie /kernel: Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: CPU: Pentium Pro (198.95-MHz 686-class CPU)
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x619  Stepping = 9
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Features=0xfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: real memory  = 201326592 (196608K bytes)
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: avail memory = 191746048 (187252K bytes)
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc037c000.
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: chip0: <Intel 82440FX (Natoma) PCI and memory controller> rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: chip1: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.13.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX3 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x00 on pci0.13.1
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: chip2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1011 device=0021)> rev 0x02 on pci0.14.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: vga0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> rev 0x54 int a irq 0 on pci0.16.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci1.8.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:bf:f6:a8
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: xl0: autoneg not complete, no carrier (forcing half-duplex, 10Mbps)
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci1.9.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: xl1: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x30 int a irq 9 on pci1.10.0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: xl1: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:e5:30:ee
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: xl1: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps)
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Probing for PnP devices:
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL0054 [0x54008c0e] Serial 0x06b52735 Comp ID: @@@0000 [0x00000000]
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: sc0 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: psm0 irq 12 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: sio0: type 16550A
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: sio1: type 16550A
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
Sep 27 21:59:21 dottie /kernel: ie0: unknown board_id: f000
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: npx0 on motherboard
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: sa0: <HP C1533A 9503> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da3 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da3: <SEAGATE ST39175LW 0001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da3: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da3: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da0: <SEAGATE ST34371W 0484> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da0: 3.300MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da0: 4095MB (8388314 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 522C)
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da1: <SEAGATE ST15150N 0024> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da1: 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 522C)
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da2: <SEAGATE ST15230N 0252> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da2: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: da2: 4095MB (8386733 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 522C)
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: changing root device to da0s1a
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 8 3f 4 0 
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:47,0
Sep 27 21:59:22 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI parity error field replaceable unit: 3
Sep 27 21:59:24 dottie /kernel: (da3:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 8 3f 4 0 



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