Adaptec 3405 problems

[Tom Whittaker]

I was using build 15323 before and was having similar problems. It seems 
to be either related to or can be caused by running arcconf. There is no 
version for 7.0 yet, adaptec has a version on their site they just 
released 4/6 but it needs the 6.x compat libs to run.


Ed Maste wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:28:00PM -0500, Tom Whittaker wrote:
>
> > On both Release and Stable 7.0 The adatec card will start spitting out
> > timeout errors then will eventually give a message on the console that
> > it can no longer communicate the the card and the machine has to be
> > rebooted. I upgraded the bios to build 15728 but still am having issues.
>
> What firmware build were you using before you tried 15728?  I've done a
> lot of testing with 3405 / 3805 controllers and haven't managed to crash
> the controller.  Most of my testing has been with firmware 12814, which
> is admittedly somewhat old.
>
> > there is also a large file called arcerror.txt, I wont include the whole
> > thing but the last line is:
> >
> > Sat 26Apr2008 (tz=0)
> > 08:10:21.697145000  arcconf: ArcPhysicalDeviceAttach.cpp: Line #: 745
> >                   StorLib::getSystemConfig()
> >                       ArcSystem::buildChildren(Ret & retOUT)
> >                           ArcAdapter::buildChildren(Ret &retOUT)
> >                              
> > ArcPhysicalDeviceAttach::ArcPhysicalDeviceAttach(
> > Channel *pChannelIN, ...)
> >                                   ArcPhysicalDeviceAttach::setFsaInfo()
> >                                      
> > ArcPhysicalDeviceAttach::doScsiPassThru()
> >                                           *** FSA API Error:
> > FsaSendScsiCommand
> > () fsaStatus=479 ***
>
> I've seen that as well and have asked Adaptec about it.  They responded
> that those errors can be ignored -- they issue SCSI pass through
> commands to try to query something from the disk and that's failing.  It
> just means that something might not be displayed for a device.
>
> - Ed
>