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

[ict technician]

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 1:25 pm, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> On Tue, 07-Oct-2003 at 12:54:08 +0100, ict technician 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
> >
> > 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
>
> Here is the software from the one who wrote it :-). Please read the
> first 70 lines and tell me about success or failure.
>
> 	-Andre

Update seemed to go okay.firewall# ./fwprog -s /dev/da3 ST336607LW_S_007.SEA

Updating SEAGATE ST336607LW      00063JA2403Q

NOTE: Skipping 80 byte header.
-------------------------------------------------
PktNo.  PktSize        BytesRemaining   LastPkt
-------------------------------------------------
  0   32768 (0x08000)    504832 (0x07B400)   0
  1   32768 (0x08000)    472064 (0x073400)   0
  2   32768 (0x08000)    439296 (0x06B400)   0
  3   32768 (0x08000)    406528 (0x063400)   0
  4   32768 (0x08000)    373760 (0x05B400)   0
  5   32768 (0x08000)    340992 (0x053400)   0
  6   32768 (0x08000)    308224 (0x04B400)   0
  7   32768 (0x08000)    275456 (0x043400)   0
  8   32768 (0x08000)    242688 (0x03B400)   0
  9   32768 (0x08000)    209920 (0x033400)   0
 10   32768 (0x08000)    177152 (0x02B400)   0
 11   32768 (0x08000)    144384 (0x023400)   0
 12   32768 (0x08000)    111616 (0x01B400)   0
 13   32768 (0x08000)     78848 (0x013400)   0
 14   32768 (0x08000)     46080 (0x00B400)   0
 15   32768 (0x08000)     13312 (0x003400)   0
 16   13312 (0x03400)         0 (0x000000)   1

Download successful

The ID string didn't change tho'

da0 at ahd1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST336607LW 0006> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da0: 35003MB (71687372 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C)
da1 at ahd1 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
da1: <SEAGATE ST336607LW 0006> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da1: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da1: 35003MB (71687372 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C)
da2 at ahd1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
da2: <SEAGATE ST336607LW 0006> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da2: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da2: 35003MB (71687372 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C)
da3 at ahd1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
da3: <SEAGATE ST336607LW 0006> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da3: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da3: 35003MB (71687372 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C)
IP Filter: v3.4.31 initialized.  Default = pass all, Logging = enabled

I half expected to see 0007 in there. Did a powercycle FWIW.

I've removed my rc.early script. I'll do my best to thrash the drive a bit. 
Seems okay so far although I haven't hit tags=64 yet.

Thanks Andre

-- 
i j hart

ICT Technician
Cardinal Newman Catholic School & Community College