Marc Olzheim wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:06:19PM -0700, Ade Lovett wrote:We used to have some trouble with these Seagate drives and Adaptec controllers with our older hardware (Supermicro X5DPL-8GM 533MHz FSB motherboards, I believe), but we worked around it by turning off packetized mode in the Adaptec BIOS. I've priced the ST373453LC, and it's 67% more than the ST373207LC ($311 vs. $519 at newegg, for example).
SuperMicro [...] Seagate [...] on-board aic7902
and, from your dmesg output:
da0: <SEAGATE ST373207LC 0003> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 320.000MB/s transfers [...]
At an absolute minimum, have the existing drive swapped out for an
ST373453LC model, making VERY certain that the firmware is rev 0006 --
prior revisions WILL corrupt your data, set fire to your cat, and
otherwise ruin your entire life -- and that's before they've actually
spun up.
I've got about 25 similar configurations running. Apart from the initial bootup card state dump, they work ok. I've flashed all Seagate drives to bios version 0007 to get it stable.
Marc
These new Supermicro X6DHR-8G 800MHz FSB systems seem to be working OK (even under load) when running a kernel with SMP enabled. I offered my configuration in case jhb or someone else would be interested in what seems to be an interrupt routing problem.
Thanks for your advice, Guy
-- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.
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