camcontrol and IDAD0

[tonix (Antonio Nati)]

At 18.41 07/09/2005, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

>Ah, yes.  I believe you've run into a firmware crash.
>
>Make sure your cards have the latest firmware running.
>
>I've seen cases where hot swapping drives causes the firmware to 
>reset and lock up (based on the LED pattern of the diagnostic lights 
>on my cards.)
>
>I added command timeout detection to the driver as a means of 
>detecting this condition.  I don't have any good leads on 
>recovinging from it though as my test hardware failed and I haven't 
>replaced it yet.

Finally, these controllers seems to be unusable in a production 
environment with FreeBSD.

Are new drivers (like ciss) and related controllers (Smart Array 5300 
and following) exempt from these errors?

Tonino