Re: Adaptect 9405w: What is the best solution?

[Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@us.ibm.com>]

Hi Tarjei,

I am glad that you a progressing forward!

<snip>
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps.  Could you send a full output?  It does not appear that the
> > aic94xx driver is loading at all...?
> >
> Duh again. I thought I had added the module to the initrd, but that
> didn't happen.
> 
> Ok, I'm one step further. Where can I get the binary firmware the
> adapter asks for?

The new sequencer has yet to be posted.  You can, however, use the old
f/w in the meantime by backing out patch #38:

http://sweaglesw.net/~djwong/docs/sas_ata-patches/38-aic94xx-v28-sequencer_2.patch

Regards,

Alexis

> 
> [    2.119258] aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded
> [    2.119335] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 18
> [    2.119379] aic94xx: found Adaptec AIC-9405W SAS/SATA Host Adapter,
> device 0000:03:04.0
> [    2.119382] scsi0 : aic94xx
> [   12.158371] aic94xx: Failed to load sequencer firmware file
> aic94xx-seq-v28.bin, error -2
> [   12.158375] aic94xx: couldn't init seqs for 0000:03:04.0
> [   12.158376] aic94xx: couldn't init the chip
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tarjei
> 
> 
> > --D
> >
> 
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