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

[Tarjei Huse <tarjei@scanventure.no>]

Alexis Bruemmer wrote:
> Hi Tarjei,
>
> I am glad that you a progressing forward!
>   
Me too :-)
> <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
>   
Ok, did that. I now manage to load the module after boot when running 
rmmod aic94xx and then modprobe aic94xx. However, I cannot get it to 
load the firmware on boot. I've tried modifying the initram-fs image and 
placing the module in both /lib/firmware/ and /lib/firmware/2.6.20-rc5/ 
but it seems not to find the firmware (aic94xx-seq.fw) in any of those 
locations.

If I reload the module after booting, it will find the firmware in 
/lib/firmware/2.6.20-rc5 without problems.

Any tips?

kind regards,
Tarjei

Any
> 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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