Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:06:53 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Doolittle" <jdoolittle@kingsquarry.net> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone using adaptec 29160 Message-ID: <200010110006.UAA63059@neptune.kingsquarry.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010092246220.14403-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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I've had an Adaptec 29160 for probably close to three weeks now without any problem using 4.1-RELEASE. The following is my dmesg: .... ahc0: <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x6300-0x63ff mem 0xe511000-00 ahc0: aix7892 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs .... da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <IBM DDYS-T18350N S80D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enable da0: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C) .... Now the motherboard is a Soyo micro (2 ISA/2PCI slots) with an AMD K6-2 333Mhz processor and 64mb of RAM. The card is installed in the first 32-bit PCI slot, not a 64-bit slot, so it's only running at half speed (at least that's my observation). Although I have CVSup'd the sources and done what I beleive to be three successful build worlds I have not had time to perform the installation as I need to make backups first. The only problem I received was a signal 11s with 'cc' during the intial build world but that was because my 50-pin SCSI channel was not properly terminated. The 50-pin channel is of course being my good old tape drive so I'm searching for some terminators (can't use my old 2940 as I'm out of PCI slots, the other slot contains a network card). I don't know if any of this helps, but I haven't had any problems other than the mentioned signal 11 because of lack of termination. Jeff On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:53:41 -0400 (EDT), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: >On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > >>In message <39E25DC9.42D0684C@columbus.rr.com> Bill Moran writes: >>: Anyone using an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller? ( It's pretty new and I >>: know it's not technically supported, but I was wondering if anyone had >>: tried it and got it working? For example, does it emulate another >>: Adaptec adapter? Will another adaptec driver work with it? Timeline >>: forces me to be sure before I purchase. >>: Any feedback is greatly appreciated (works, doesn't work, etc) >> >>I'm using the 19160, the younger brother of the 29160. It works >>great! > >I'm glad Warner is having better luck. I don't know which variant of >the 29160 you are looking at Bill, but I still don't have my two >controllers working. I have a motherboard (Supermicro 370DL3) with an >onboard 29160 (Adaptec AIC7892) plus an additional 64-bit PCI 29160 >sitting in it. When installating 4.1-RELEASE these controllers will >hang at random points during installation. When installing >4.1.1-RELEASE they panic on boot during the probe. When installing >recent -current snaps on the machine the same thing also happens. The >only revision of the driver that seems to install and boot fine on this >combination is src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c,v1.47. I have not had time >to collect additional information on the panic's as I'm just finishing >up a theatre production which has taken much of my time. Hopefully at >some point I can sit down with a serial console and a debug kernel and >get Justin the specifics he needs to fix it. Be forewarned. I hate to >tell you this, and hope if you do buy one you'll have better luck. I >don't know what else to tell you to buy, since these are in my opinion >the best SCSI controllers on the market right now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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