Subject: Re: Support for LSI Logic 53C1010 SCSI controller
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/30/2001 14:06:46
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:08:04PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > > I have some documentation on this chip, but no hardware, and no time to
> > > do anything about it myself.  If someone else in interested in it...
> >
> > Does the siop driver not work with it? At least it claims to support the
> > 53c1010 :)
>
> siop has some kind of support for it; only in Ultra2wide for now
> (and only in -current).
> However I've got reports of commands timeout under heavy load, and no
> time to look at this for now. I suspect turning of tagged queuing would
> workaround the problem ...

FWIW, here is the bug report I sent to Manuel:

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> It's already in -current; could you try this ?
> Note that it should only run at U2W (80MB/s) for now

It detects the card just fine; however under heavy I/O (like checking out
a CVS tree or untarring the packages tree) it cracks:

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Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: root file system type: ffs
Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: DMA IRQ: Illegal instruction dma fifo
empty, DSP=0x3e0 DSA=0xf058: last msg_in=0x0 status=0xff
Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: siop1: scsi bus reset
Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: cmd 0xc0876000 (target 0:0) in reset list
Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: cmd 0xc0876000 (status 2) about to be
processed
Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: siop1: target 0 using 16bit transfers
Apr 20 06:58:53 web1 /netbsd: siop1: target 0 now synchronous at 40.0Mhz,
offset 31
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It does this 5-6 times over several minutes then freezes...  Any ideas?
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Best Wishes - Peter
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