From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 27 17:37:20 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA13587 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:37:20 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA13581 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:37:17 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id UAA06290; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 20:32:40 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504280032.UAA06290@hda.com> Subject: Re: i386/369: (AHA1542A problems) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 20:32:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504272220.AAA01761@jette.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 28, 95 00:20:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1141 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > > I'm also using an AHA1540A in one machine. I do have some problems > when using this machine as an NFS server, but the AHA itself appears > to work. (E.g., i can start compiling the world on the machine > itself. Last time i tried, i gave up after ~ 48 hours, it's only > a 386sx/16 :-) > > My aha is: > aha-1540a > assy 416006-03 Rev D (on the PCB) > 420504-00 C > MCODE E7BC (on the firmware ROM) > > I guess the most important part is not the PCB revision, but the > firmware revision. Some very old AHA154XA's are said to have > disfunctional scatter/gather, perhaps your adapter is one of them? Is anyone else having AHA154x problems? I'm using a 1542C and a 1542B and did some real heavy testing last weekend (four days of constant file system thrashing while alternately freezing and thawing the SCSI bus) without any corruption. I'm pretty sure that the bug submitter was using this host adapter without any problems earlier. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267