On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:25 -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > These comments have no direct bearing on the panic that > James is reporting, but ... that sequencer version: > "Razor_10a1" is old and should be updated. > > With a 48300 adapter I needed to do two things: > [a] update the board's BIOS firmware from build 1618 > to 1705 (20060421) [See adaptec's site] > [b] update the linux driver's copy of the sequencer > code (in my case from Razor_10c2 to Razor_10c5b) > > My card needed [a] to stabilize the POST and device scan > that the 48300 does prior to the OS loading. Once the Actually, mine runs with the bios disabled (So I can boot from an SPI device to , so I won't see this anyway ... > aic94xx driver is loaded, it replaces the running version > of the sequencer code with its own copy. If the reader > sees numerous "tmf timeout" messages in their log then > there is a good chance old sequencer code is the cause. And really, this driver needs to use the firmware loader, so this no-longer becomes an issue. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
