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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:58:37 +0100
From:      Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-in phase and other weirdness
Message-ID:  <20030306225837.GA1277@goku.kasby>
In-Reply-To: <20030306153355.A12907@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
References:  <20030228235031.GE5033@grummit.biaix.org> <20030301094934.GA547@goku.kasby> <20030306153355.A12907@curry.mchp.siemens.de>

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:33:55PM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> (I assume the cabling/termination has been checked already.)
>=20
> I had bus problems with my DNES until I upgraded the firmware to:
>=20
> da2: <IBM DNES-318350W SAH0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device=20
>=20
> In general, I have often seen bus problems when a lot of different
> devices are hanging on the same SCSI bus and some drives are being
> hit really hard. They always went away with a new fw, especially
> on my IBM DDYS drives. The Plextor fw seems a bit old as well (at
> least compared to my PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.13) but I don't know
> if the 32TS uses the same as the 40TS.
>=20
> I have written a program to upgrade the firmware on IBM and Plextor
> (and some other devices) under FreeBSD in case you are interested...
> However, IMO one should play with the fw only in case of problems
> and not just to get lastest version...
>=20
> 	-Andre
>=20
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> end of the original message

I'm having SCSI-related problems on the home PC, which has run fine for thr=
ee
years now whithout being hardware-upgraded. I update the system on a regular
basis, though (last buildworld/installword was on Thu Dec 26 2002).
The IBM drive fitness test showed that hard drives are ok. The error seems =
to
appear randomly, whithout particular conditions (load avg, used mem, progra=
ms
running, etc.).
A couple of days ago the SCSI bus has been reset five consecutive times! Is=
 it
time to change my AHA2940 or this has nothing to do with the SCSI controlle=
r?

	Francesco Casadei
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