AIC 7890 question?

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 Karen_White at dell.com wrote:

> The 7890 (and 7860) work with Doug's pre10 patch.   If you have installed
> the patch
> and still don't see the 7890, make sure it is turned on in the BIOS.
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Mihkel Tammepuu [SMTP:mihkel at teleport.ee]
> > Sent:	Friday, September 18, 1998 2:52 PM
> > To:	aic7xxx at FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject:	AIC 7890  question?
> > 
> > Has anybody had any success in getting AIC 7890 working?
> > We've got Dell PowerEdge 2300  with built in AIC 7890 and 7860. The 7860
> > works ok, but the 7890 is never seen.
> > Is this just some configuration option we are missing or is it just
> > unsupported (yet)?
> > Is anyone working on it?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mihkel Tammepuu

I have 14/16 Dell PowerEdge 2300's working with pre10, with two that
still don't work.  There also appears to be a small residual amount of
traffic still reporting Data Parity Ram Errors on either 2300's or
2940U2W's in other platforms -- a number small enough that the remaining
problem could be (broken) hardware or a last remaining bug or two in the
software driver.  When it work, though, it appears to work very well at
this point.

If you haven't tried pre10, you certainly should.  If you try it and
FAIL you should definitely communicate the failure and as much detail
as possible about your setup back to this list to help pin down just
what is failing to work.  Even if we get to the point where we can say
with some degree of certainty that from this point out the Data Ram
Parity Error means that your hardware is probably broken (or that
freebsd's not finding the 7890 means that the hardware is probably
broken) that is still very useful information.

   rgb

Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu




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