From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jun 4 08:24:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25970 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA25946 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 12042 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jun 1998 16:26:09 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FB1D@freya.circle.net> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 12:26:09 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: tcobb Subject: RE: DPT Redux Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" , Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Jun-98 tcobb wrote: ... >> BTW, for this to exist, the DPT firmware has to be rather sick. I can >> rplicate this scsnario with some broken, unpublished versions of the >> firmware. > > In your test case, please try to replicate this problem with the > firmware version available for download from DPT's site right now. That > was the version I used on my card (or, at least, the one available mid > last week). While logically an excellent idea, it is a bit impractical. I tested several firmware versions, and rejected them for instability. This was noted to my DPT technical/OEM contact. The version I use currently, is 7LR. I tried later versions but they did very ugly things to my RAID-5 arrays. Not the symptoms you describe, but just as ugly. The firmware versions I use are always available from my ftp server. Maybe I should include the firmware with the driver release. That is difficult to do as it is a copyrighted material, NOT under Berkeley license. I am open to suggenstions. The thing that is pretty clear here, is that we need a way to make a ``FreeBSD-Certified'' firmware revision known and available. Let me inquire as to what can be done beyond what we are already doing. Simon --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message