3ware 9500S card not responding after upgrading firmware to 2.08.00.006

[Vinod Kashyap]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Yves Avenard [mailto:jean-yves.avenard at hydrix.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:00 AM
> To: Vinod Kashyap
> Cc: Jean-Yves Avenard; Michael Meltzer; freebsd-amd64 at FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: 3ware 9500S card not responding after upgrading 
> firmware to 2.08.00.006
> 
> Hello again.
> 
> Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here is the kernel configuration I'm using:
> > include GENERIC
> >
> > ident           amd64
> >
> > # My options
> >
> > #options                TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE
> >
> > options         KDB
> > options         DDB
> >
> > options         QUOTA
> 
> I should have tried more things before I wrote to you.
> I commented out option TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE
> 
> and it's working fine again... Gosh it gave me a big fright.
> 
> Maybe somebody should mention this somewhere, obviously the 
> FreeBSD code that revert to using the default firmware after 
> failing flashing a new one isn't working properly :(
>

The code that attempts to work with the firmware on the controller
is alright, but in your case, it looks like somehow the controller
got into a bad state, and hence the errors.

There's more information on auto-flash of firmware in the latest
/sys/modules/twa/Makefile.  You might want to refer to that.

I don't maintain twe/twa anymore.  Please contact 3ware support
with any future questions.
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