From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Mar 3 12:40: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B373637B401 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:40:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C436C43FDF for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 78655 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 2003 20:40:00 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:40:00 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Steve Grandi Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with Adaptec 7902 Ultra320 controller In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Steve Grandi wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Steve Grandi wrote: > > > I've been trying to bring up Stable on a Supermicro X5DPR-8G2+ motherboard > > which features an integrated Adaptec AIC-7902 dual channel Ultra 320 > > controller. Three disks are present, all on the A channel. > > > > 4.7-Release blows up badly on this hardware (starting with "ahd0: WARNING - > > Failed chip reset! Trying to initialize anyway). > > To follow up my own post, I installed a 29160 in the system, installed > 4.7-RELEASE, upgraded to STABLE, and then tried the on-board Ultra 320 > controller again. Lo and behold, the hang during disk probing no longer > occurs and the system comes up and runs fine. However, the "card state > dump" on the unused B channel of the 7902 (ahd1) still occurs. I wonder > what would happen if there actually was a disk on the B channel? My only guess is that this is a firmware problem that was fixed in 5.0. isp(4) on the 2[12]00 had (has?) a similar problem where the firmware would never finish a probe when there was no drive attached. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message