AIC7902 w/ seagate U320 drive issue on releng-4 (and current)

[The Hermit Hacker]

please, I have a whack of drives that need to be done, and prefer to avoid
windoze if I can  :)

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Don Bowman wrote:

> > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Don Bowman wrote:
> >
> > > Jul 26 19:27:20  /kernel: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends
> > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> FYI, i've solved this problem for me by moving to
> firmware version 5 on the ST318453LW (U320 15KRPM 18GB)
> seagate drive.
>
> If you are seeing the problem I mentioned with U320
> seagate drive and AIC7902 controller I highly recommend
> contacting seagate and requesting the latest rom.
> Sadly the actual changes are 'proprietary' so I cannot
> be sure this was the root cause of the problem. I'm
> guessing there is an issue with large # of tags outstanding,
> but its only a hunch.
>
> I have code to program this ROM under FreeBSD i
> will share with anyone who asks. I obtained this
> from andre __AT__ albsmeier __DOT__ net, who had
> posted information to this list in the past [thank
> you!].
>
> I cannot be 100% sure this fixes the problem, but it was
> pretty easy to reproduce with 'dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=20k',
> and now I cannot reproduce on the 15 systems I am trying.
>
> --don
>
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