Subject: Re: twe(4) question for NetBSD-1.6/i386
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/27/2002 17:02:32
In article <200211270206.SAA28246@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>,
Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org> wrote:
>	Hello.  I'm trying to get a Threeware
>card going under NetBSD 1.6 using the twe(4) driver.  When I boot the 1.6
>kernel, I get the message:
>twe0: No attention interrupt
>twe0: reset failed.

Err, sorry about the previous empty message; things to try:

1. a current kernel
2. move the card to a different slot
3. make the timeout in twe_status_wait longer, and add a debugging meesage
   to look at the bits.

christos

>	In looking at the 1.6 source, it appears that this
>means the driver tried to issue a soft reset to the card, and failed.
>	The card is a 12-port threeware card, with
>a RAID-5 configured through the on-board BIOS.  The card is newly purchased
>and, presumably, never been used.
>	Does anyone have any ideas on what 
>the problem the card might be complaining about is, or what might be done
>about it?  Is there some setting which the card needs to be set to in order
>for the twe(4) driver to work?
>Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>-thanks
>-Brian