Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:02:51 -0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) From: Steve Grandi <grandi@noao.edu> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with Adaptec 7902 Ultra320 controller Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.53.0302281057570.296@rigel> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.53.0302251421260.2248@rigel> References: <Pine.WNT.4.53.0302251421260.2248@rigel>
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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). > > When I try and boot a snapshot of Stable from 24 February 2003, I get a > dump from the B side of the controller followed by a hang when the disks > are being probed. > > When I boot 5.0-RELEASE from the distribution ISO image, everything works > fine. > > Since I don't really want to run 5.0 on this machine in production, can > anyone give me a clue as to how I can get it running under Stable? any > other information I can provide? I hate to contemplate copping out and > disabling the on-board controller and sticking in a 29160 in a PCI slot. > 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? -- Steve Grandi National Optical Astronomy Observatory/AURA Inc., Tucson AZ USA Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 FAX: +1 520 318-8360 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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