Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question

[Andrew Heyn]

Hi,

Now that its confirmed that it's a firmware crash...  What can I do about
this?
Could it be the driver?  or the drives giving an unexpected response?
Can HP/Compaq help me?

Am I SOL?


I hope it's not the last thing, but I guess it is.

Thanks,
Andrew



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew N. Dodd [mailto:mdodd at FreeBSD.ORG]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 6:45 PM
To: Andrew Heyn
Cc: freebsd-hardware at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote:
> I got a 6-CURRENT kernel so I could show you the messages it creates
> when it times out. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem very useful, but here
> it is:
>
> ida0: ida_timeout() qactive 1
> ida0: IDA_INTERRUPTS
> ida0:		R_CMD_FIFO: 00000000
> 		R_DONE_FIFO:00000000
> 		R_INT_MASK: 00000000
> 		R_STATUS:	00000000
> 		R_INT_PENDING

Yep, thats what a firmware lockup looks like.

You can confirm this by looking at the pretty lights on the card and
comparing the pre and post crash state.

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