Please don't cut linux-scsi from the cc list On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 22:14 +0300, Constantin Teodorescu wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > This configuration doesn't work on the vanilla linux kernel ... you need > > the scsi-aic94xxx-sas-2.6 tree as well for this; is that what you're > > running with? > > > Yes, I am experimenting now on a 2.6.21-RC7 kernel with 1.0.3 version of > aic94xx driver. > > > Are these SAS or SATA drives? > > > 8 SAS drives > > I have already received some information from Luben Tuikov and Alexis > Bruemmer (he told me that there is a new firmware seq file at Adaptec) > and I am sending you the message: > > Luben Tuikov wrote: > > Constantin, > > > > adp94xx is not supported by anyone. > > > > The in-kernel aic94xx is supported by linux-scsi mailing list > > and your OS vendor. > > > > Luben > > > I was afraid of ... :-( > > I already got the news from Andy Warner that told me about that ! > > Alexis Bruemmer send me also a message saying : > > Yep we have seen this issue before. However the fix involves both a > > driver update and a sequencer f/w update found at: > > > > http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/downloads/linux_source/linux_source_code?productId=SAS-48300&dn=Adaptec+Serial+Attached+SCSI+48300 > > > > > > If you still get this crash with that version of the sequencer let me > > know > > Digging I discovered that the firmware is different (md5sum differs) and > newer (released in 2 Mar 2007) that the firmware that I installed in > January 2007. > > bnd:~/# md5sum /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw old-aic94xx-seq.fw > fb393f52fde81eb53afa1e204a606c37 /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw > 589f442b43ea0cc42fec275d7a612c2e old-aic94xx-seq.fw > > So I downloaded the new firmware and I will intensively teste it. > I will keep you informed about the results. > > Thank you again for all your valuable help, > Best regards from Romania, > Teo > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
