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

[Tarjei Huse <tarjei@scanventure.no>]

Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Tarjei Huse wrote:
>
>   
>> Duh! Thanks :-)
>>
>> After doing as you suggested, and running make oldconfig using the
>> configuration from Ubuntu Dapper (2.6.15-23-server) and the stock Ubuntu
>> Edgy I get the same error when booting the kernel:
>>
>> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e00000000 is not E820-reserved
>> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
>> PCI Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:01.1
>> PCI Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:01.1
>> PCI Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:01.1
>>     
>
> This is a known conflict between the kernel and the BIOS.  As far as I
> know this should not affect the operation of the aic94xx because it is a
> PCIX device, and bridge 0:0:1.1 is a PCIe port.  At least on the x306m...
>
>   
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
>> wn-block(0,0)
>>
>> Is this some missing compile option or a bug?
>>     
>
> 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?

[    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


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