ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Fri Nov 11 23:12:12 PST 2005


Ade Lovett wrote this message on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 22:57 -0800:
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:51 , Amit Rao wrote:
> >0) Upgrade to Seagate 10K.7 drive firmware level 0008. That seems  
> >to help. One "ahd sequencer error" message still appears at boot,  
> >but after that it seems to work (with your fingers crossed).
> 
> Of course, you then spend far too much time ensuring that any  
> replacement drives are flashed appropriately (which, afaict,  
> *requires* Windows to do), and also running the gauntlet of further  
> problems down the road when you throw the drives into a new machine  
> with a subtly different HBA bios.

obviously you haven't done any research or even talked with Seagate
about this issue...  Seagate has a Linux version of their Seagate
Enterprise Utility that allows you to flash their drives...

/me having had issues with the drives and successfully flashed drives
w/o using Windows.

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