Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 13:08:44 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990809130844.00eb8d50@staff.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <199908091705.LAA29115@panzer.kdm.org> References: <4.1.19990808234210.03c6b2d0@granite.sentex.ca>
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>It smells like bogus firmware, but it's kinda hard to say. You might check >to see whether there is new firmware available for that disk. Quantum has >firmware and firmware loaders on their ftp site. > >You would probably do a lot better if you went to 3.x/CAM. The new CAM >SCSI subsystem can generally handle unruly drives much better than the >old SCSI subsystem. (In fact, we used Quantum Atlas II's with bogus >firmware to test some of the error recovery code.) Thanks for having a look. I do plan to upgrade the box to 3.x/CAM. However, its a big busy box with a lot of users and services, so it will take us a bit. We are also looking at a Legacy external RAID box to deploy with this new server. Hmmm... While on the topic, what would you reccomend as an external RAID box ? The Legacy is about $5-6K USD which I guess is reasonable with 4 8gig drives. If anyone knows SCSI, I guess it would be you and Justin ;-) Thanks again, ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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