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

[ict technician]

> 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

I'm still seeing occasional problems. I can't find my previous posts either 
(on stable probably).

Anyway, I have:
Adaptec 29320
ST336607LW P/N 9V4005-002 firmware r=0006
(4x Vinum RAID10)

tags depth set to 31.

Seagate have released a new firmware revision. Can you send me your update 
program. Thanks. Our ISP has strange mail filters you might need to send to
ianjhart AT yahoo DOT com

While I'm here... This is our (only) gateway so it doesn't get updated except 
in dire need. I'm running a snapshot from July 31st. Have there been any code 
changes since then. I had a browse in cvsweb, but I don't know what to look 
for.

Please CC me.

Thanks 2 all

-- 
i j hart

ICT Technician
Cardinal Newman Catholic School & Community College