Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

[Justin T. Gibbs]

[Resent with a subject this time.  Hit send too soon...]

Folks,

I've just uploaded version 1.3.10 of the aic79xx driver and version 
6.2.36 of the aic7xxx driver.  Both are available for 2.4.X and
2.5.X kernels in either bk send format or as a tarball from here:
 
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/

The change sets relative to the 2.5.X tree are:

ChangeSet@1.1275, 2003-06-03 17:35:01-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Update Aic79xx Readme

ChangeSet@1.1274, 2003-06-03 17:22:05-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx Driver Update
   o Bump version number to 6.2.36
   o Document recent aic7xxx driver releases

ChangeSet@1.1273, 2003-06-03 17:20:14-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic79xx Driver Update
   o Bump driver version to 1.3.10
   o Document recent releases in driver readme.

ChangeSet@1.1272, 2003-05-31 21:12:09-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
   o Work around negotiation firmware bug in the Quantum Atlas 10K
   o Clear stale PCI errors in our register mapping test to avoid
     false positives from rouge accesses to our registers that occur
     prior to our driver attach.

ChangeSet@1.1271, 2003-05-31 18:34:01-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic79xx Driver Update
   o Implement suspend and resume

ChangeSet@1.1270, 2003-05-31 18:32:36-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx Driver Update
   o Fix some suspend and resume bugs

ChangeSet@1.1269, 2003-05-31 18:27:09-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx Driver Update
   o Correct the type of the DV settings array.

ChangeSet@1.1268, 2003-05-31 18:25:28-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver Update
   o Remove unecessary and incorrect use of ~0 as a mask.

ChangeSet@1.1267, 2003-05-30 13:50:00-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
   o Adapt to 2.5.X SCSI proc interface change while maitaining
     compatibility with earlier kernels.

ChangeSet@1.1266, 2003-05-30 11:01:02-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Merge http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5
  into overdrive.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/home/gibbs/bk/linux-2.5

ChangeSet@1.1215.4.6, 2003-05-30 10:50:17-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx Driver Update
   o Bring in aic7xxx_reg_print.c update that was missed the
     last time the firmware was regenerated.  The old file worked
     fine, so this is mostly a cosmetic change.

ChangeSet@1.1215.4.5, 2003-05-30 10:48:31-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic79xx Driver Update
   o Correct non-zero lun output on post Rev A4 hardware
     in packetized mode.

ChangeSet@1.1215.4.4, 2003-05-30 10:46:03-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic79xx Driver Update
   o Return to using 16byte alignment for th SCB_TAG field in our SCB.
     The hardware seems to corrupt SCBs on some PCI platforms with the
     tag field in its old location.

ChangeSet@1.1215.4.3, 2003-05-30 10:43:20-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx Driver Update
   o Adopt 2.5.X EISA framework for probing aic7770 controllers

ChangeSet@1.1215.4.2, 2003-05-30 10:31:04-06:00, gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
  Aic7xxx Driver Update
   o Correct card identifcation string for the 2920C

Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

[Louay Gammo]

Hi,

Has any one succeeded in running the latest  sources with RH9 (2.4.20-8) 
kernel? Specifically, these are the sources sent out by Justin T. Gibbs 
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=author:gibbs%40scsiguy.com+> 
(gibbs@scsiguy.com <mailto:gibbs%40scsiguy.com>):

    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
<http://people.FreeBSD.org/%7Egibbs/linux/SRC/>
In my case the driver loads fine, but it takes a while to initialize(?). 
I get errors like:
scsi0: Host status: Failed(0)
...

The kernel boots fine, and the rc scripts are run fine and the console 
prompt shows fine. However, the console is locked. I cannot type 
anything there.  I can ssh/telnet to the machine. The disks seem to be 
accessed fine. However, I get the same errors from the driver on shutdown.

So before I waste my time and (more importantly) yours, does this sound 
familiar or did I miss something in the compile. I will send a more 
complete screen dump if anyone is interested.

Thanks a lot,

L.

Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

[Justin T. Gibbs]

> Hi,
> 
> Has any one succeeded in running the latest  sources with RH9 (2.4.20-8)
> kernel? Specifically, these are the sources sent out by Justin T. Gibbs.
> 
>     http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
> <http://people.FreeBSD.org/%7Egibbs/linux/SRC/>
> In my case the driver loads fine, but it takes a while to initialize(?). I get errors like:
> scsi0: Host status: Failed(0)
> ...

The latest source on my site is for aic7xxx 6.3.4 and aic79xx 2.0.4.
Are you referring to these versions?  Have you tried the pre-built
drivers for this kernel which are also on my site?

--
Justin

Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

[Louay Gammo]

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

>>Hi,
>>
>>Has any one succeeded in running the latest  sources with RH9 (2.4.20-8)
>>kernel? Specifically, these are the sources sent out by Justin T. Gibbs.
>>
>>    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
>><http://people.FreeBSD.org/%7Egibbs/linux/SRC/>
>>In my case the driver loads fine, but it takes a while to initialize(?). I get errors like:
>>scsi0: Host status: Failed(0)
>>...
>>    
>>
>
>The latest source on my site is for aic7xxx 6.3.4 and aic79xx 2.0.4.
>Are you referring to these versions?  Have you tried the pre-built
>drivers for this kernel which are also on my site?
>
>--
>Justin
>  
>
I got this tarball from your website: aic79xx-linux-2.4-20031106-tar.gz. 
I untarred on top on my private 2.4.20-8 kernel tree. Should I have 
deleted the aic7xxx directory before I did this?

I did use an older version of the binary driver RPM. I faced versioning 
problems at the RPM install script level and (if I did a manual install 
of the binary in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8custom) the kernel versioning 
problem.  This driver works fine with standard RH kernels though.

I am hoping for a solution that will enable me to have a super-kernel 
that will run on multiple H/W configurations without hacking on init 
scripts. That's why I am interested in getting the driver build and 
install properly from sources.

Thanks,

L.

P.S. This info comes from the same machine when booted with stock RH 
2.4.20-8. /proc/scsi/0:

    Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 1.3.10
    Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter
    aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
    Allocated SCBs: 32, SG List Length: 102
    ...

Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

[Justin T. Gibbs]

> I got this tarball from your website: aic79xx-linux-2.4-20031106-tar.gz.
> I untarred on top on my private 2.4.20-8 kernel tree. Should I have deleted
> the aic7xxx directory before I did this?

It probably makes little difference so long as you get rid of all of the
.o and .???.flags files in that directory.

> I did use an older version of the binary driver RPM. I faced versioning
> problems at the RPM install script level 

Yes. Module versioning means that these binaries will not function on
anything but stock kernels.

Can you provide all of the messages that the driver outputs?  A dmesg
from a running system would be useful too.

--
Justin