From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 21:19:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7182A16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:19:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB3343D45 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:19:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.19] (ibook-nai.samsco.home [192.168.254.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j13LIoUg017203; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:18:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42029545.5090707@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:19:01 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hunter References: <20050201190646.GA18651@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <41FFD47B.2000505@freebsd.org> <1107411413.43610.20.camel@mark.aboutit.co.za> <20050203180453.GA3175@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050203180453.GA3175@ack.Berkeley.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump card state: amd64 + 300G seagate + Adaptec AIC7902 + 5.3-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:19:43 -0000 Mike Hunter wrote: > On Feb 03, "Mark Bojara" wrote: > > >>I have the same problem with a 18 GB Seagate SCSI drive I checked around >>on seagates website and I cant seem to find firmware updates anywhere. >>Could you perhaps direct me to a link also I see other replies to this >>post show that this wont necessarily fix this problem. > > > I was told that you either have to call them or email them: > > http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/asp/tools/en/webhelp/How_To_Contact_Seagate.html > > discsupport@seagate.com > > I didn't see any way to get a new bios for the onboard adaptec card. Dmesg > says my adaptec "card" is "Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter", but > a bios is nowhere to be found on their website. I've been told by others > it's not possible to upgrade the onboard chipset's BIOS, but Scott thinks > it's there somewhere. The BIOS version should show up in the Adaptec banner during boot. Adaptec does provide BIOS updates for the add-in cards that it sells. For the on-motherboard chips, you'll have to contact the motherboard vendor for a BIOS update since the Adaptec and System BIOS images are usually combined. BIOS updates are rarely for fixing runtime problems. The Adaptec SCSI chips do not use a traditional microprocessor and firmware image, so it's not as if updating the BIOS will give you a new firmware that will make the chip run differently, like with an LSI SCSI chip or a RAID card. At best, the BIOS might set initial state of the chip to enable/disable/tweak certain features. The OS driver is what really controls the runtime operation, though. Scott