Subject: Re: AHA1542B stopped working!
To: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
From: Jarkko Torppa <torppa@cute.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/29/1996 18:54:12
  
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:54:12 +0200
From: Jarkko Torppa <torppa@cute.fi>

> Does anyone know what's happened to the Adaptec drivers?  Upgrading
> from a NetBSD/i386 1.1A kernel from 10 days ago or thereabouts to a
> very current 1.1B (March 28th) causes my AHA1542B to stop working.
> The new kernel correctly recognizes it as a "1540A/1542A/1542B" at
> 0x330 with IRQ 11 and DRQ 5 -- but then claims the firmware version to
> be 0.5, which I don't believe, thrashes around a bit with diagnostics
> that don't tell me much, and finally panics with a "should have called
> debugger now" or words to that effect.

There was a message to this list sometime ago that this driver had been updated

I have had couple of crashes since (at least one with should have called 
debugger here), my machine says at boot

aha0 at isa0 port 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5: model AHA-1540A/1542A/1542B, 
firmwar
e 0.5
(probe): aha_cmd, cmd/data port empty 6
aha0: sync, parity
scsibus0 at aha0
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <IBM, DSAS-3540, S47W> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 522MB, 3875 cyl, 3 head, 92 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <CDC, 94191-15, 0136> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd1: 632MB, 1632 cyl, 15 head, 52 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <FUJITSU, M2694ES-512, 812A> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd2: 1033MB, 1819 cyl, 15 head, 77 sec, 512 bytes/sec
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-5201TA, 3014> SCSI2 5/cdrom 
re
movable

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