Re: AIC7(censored) card gone wild?

From: Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 20:28:12 EST


> Hi Justin, list ...
>
> I have a 2xPIII 797 Mhz with an AIC-7899P U160/m; I have
> been running it under 2.5.66 since it was released, always
> using the AIC7XXXX driver (new one).
>
> However, suddenly something weird happened; since one week
> ago, I get panics (in the serial console) like
> the one attached (milikk.panic.txt) always caused or having
> an rsync process as current (rsync is used for backup).
>
> I also noticed that at about the same time I started to
> get got those panics, I get the following when booting
> the kernel:

I'm not sure what may have changed in your configuration to
make these problems start, but there is one recent fix that
may apply to your problem. I do not know if this will apply
to the 6.2.28 driver version you are using since it is based
on the latest driver release from here:

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/

Here's the patch:

--
Justin

==== //depot/aic7xxx/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c#134 (ktext) ====

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ * IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. * - * $Id: //depot/aic7xxx/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c#133 $ + * $Id: //depot/aic7xxx/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c#134 $ * * $FreeBSD$ */ @@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ * current connection, so we must * leave it on while single stepping. */ - ahc_outb(ahc, SIMODE1, ENBUSFREE); + ahc_outb(ahc, SIMODE1, simode1 & ENBUSFREE); else ahc_outb(ahc, SIMODE1, 0); ahc_outb(ahc, CLRINT, CLRSCSIINT);

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