RE: odd dmesg scsi error with aic7902 controller

> From: Sven Willenberger [mailto:sven_at_dmv.com]
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 17:41, Sven Willenberger wrote:
> > Have just moved to supermicro 1U boxes using 80-pin SCA 
> drives (Seagate
> > ST336607LC) and U320 adaptec on-board controllers (aic7902) and the 
> > error shown in the dmesg below crops up during bootup.
> > 
> > The odd thing is that it only occurs if 2 or more drives 
> are connected;
> > if only 1 drive is physically attached, the boot up 
> sequence is smooth.
> > These boxes are not yet in production and I hesitate to do so if the
> > error message is an indication of future problems. This same message
> > does occur in FreeBSD 4.9-Release also. The following dmesg snippet
> > comes from a 5.2.1-Release system:
> > 
> > .
> > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> > ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > ahd0: Dumping Card State at program address 0x216 Mode 0x0
> > Card was paused
> > HS_MAILBOX[0x0] INTCTL[0x80]:(SWTMINTMASK) SEQINTSTAT[0x0]
> > SAVED_MODE[0x11] DFFSTAT[0x33]:(CURRFIFO_NONE|FIFO0FREE|FIFO1FREE)
> > SCSISIGI[0x0]:(P_DATAOUT) SCSIPHASE[0x0] SCSIBUS[0x0]
> > LASTPHASE[0x1]:(P_DATAOUT|P_BUSFREE) SCSISEQ0[0x0]
> > SCSISEQ1[0x12]:(ENAUTOATNP|ENRSELI) SEQCTL0[0x0]
> > SEQINTCTL[0x6]:(INTMASK1|INTMASK2)
> > SEQ_FLAGS[0x0] SEQ_FLAGS2[0x0] SSTAT0[0x0] SSTAT1[0x0]
> > SSTAT2[0x0] SSTAT3[0x0] PERRDIAG[0x0]
> > SIMODE1[0xa4]:(ENSCSIPERR|ENSCSIRST|ENSELTIMO)
> > LQISTAT0[0x0] LQISTAT1[0x0] LQISTAT2[0x0] LQOSTAT0[0x0]
> > LQOSTAT1[0x0] LQOSTAT2[0x0]
> > 
> > SCB Count = 16 CMDS_PENDING = 0 LASTSCB 0xffff CURRSCB 0x9 NEXTSCB
> > 0xff80
> > qinstart = 38 qinfifonext = 41
> > QINFIFO: 0xe 0x9 0xf
> > WAITING_TID_QUEUES:
> > Pending list:
> >  15 FIFO_USE[0x0] SCB_CONTROL[0x40]:(DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x17]
> >   9 FIFO_USE[0x0] SCB_CONTROL[0x40]:(DISCENB) SCB_SCSIID[0x7]
> >  14 FIFO_USE[0x0] SCB_CONTROL[0x48]:(STATUS_RCVD|DISCENB)
> > SCB_SCSIID[0x7]
> > Total 3
> > Kernel Free SCB list: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 0
> > Sequencer Complete DMA-inprog list:
> > Sequencer Complete list:
> > Sequencer DMA-Up and Complete list:
> > 
> > ahd0: FIFO0 Free, LONGJMP == 0x8000, SCB 0xf
> > 
> SEQIMODE[0x3f]:(ENCFG4TCMD|ENCFG4ICMD|ENCFG4TSTAT|ENCFG4ISTAT|
ENCFG4DATA|ENSAVEPTRS)
> > SEQINTSRC[0x0] DFCNTRL[0x0] 
> DFSTATUS[0x89]:(FIFOEMP|HDONE|PRELOAD_AVAIL)
> > SG_CACHE_SHADOW[0x2]:(LAST_SEG) SG_STATE[0x0] DFFSXFRCTL[0x0]
> > SOFFCNT[0x0] MDFFSTAT[0x5]:(FIFOFREE|DLZERO) SHADDR = 0x00, 
> SHCNT = 0x0
> > HADDR = 0x00, HCNT = 0x0 CCSGCTL[0x10]:(SG_CACHE_AVAIL)
> > ahd0: FIFO1 Free, LONGJMP == 0x8063, SCB 0x9
> > 
> SEQIMODE[0x3f]:(ENCFG4TCMD|ENCFG4ICMD|ENCFG4TSTAT|ENCFG4ISTAT|
ENCFG4DATA|ENSAVEPTRS)
> > SEQINTSRC[0x0] DFCNTRL[0x0] 
> DFSTATUS[0x89]:(FIFOEMP|HDONE|PRELOAD_AVAIL)
> > SG_CACHE_SHADOW[0x2]:(LAST_SEG) SG_STATE[0x0] DFFSXFRCTL[0x0]
> > SOFFCNT[0x0] MDFFSTAT[0x5]:(FIFOFREE|DLZERO) SHADDR = 0x00, 
> SHCNT = 0x0
> > HADDR = 0x00, HCNT = 0x0 CCSGCTL[0x10]:(SG_CACHE_AVAIL)
> > LQIN: 0x8 0x0 0x0 0xf 0x0 0x1 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 
> 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > ahd0: LQISTATE = 0x0, LQOSTATE = 0x0, OPTIONMODE = 0x52
> > ahd0: OS_SPACE_CNT = 0x20 MAXCMDCNT = 0x1
> > 
> > SIMODE0[0xc]:(ENOVERRUN|ENIOERR)
> > CCSCBCTL[0x4]:(CCSCBDIR)
> > ahd0: REG0 == 0xb660, SINDEX = 0x10e, DINDEX = 0x104
> > ahd0: SCBPTR == 0xf, SCB_NEXT == 0xff80, SCB_NEXT2 == 0xffc8
> > CDB 12 20 0 80 88 a6
> > STACK: 0x211 0x2 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> > ses0: <SUPER GEM318 0> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
> > ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers
> > ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device
> > GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc86c8850
> > GEOM: create disk da1 dp=0xc86cd050
> > Copied 18 bytes of sense data offset 12: 0x70 0x0 0x6 0x0 
> 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > 0xa 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x29 0x2 0x2 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
> > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> > SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
> > Copied 18 bytes of sense data offset 12: 0x70 0x0 0x6 0x0 
> 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > 0xa 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x29 0x2 0x2 0x0 0x0 0x0
> > da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> > da0: <SEAGATE ST336607LC 0007> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> > da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged
> > Queueing Enabled
> > da0: 35003MB (71687372 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4462C)
> > da1 at ahd0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> > da1: <SEAGATE ST336607LC 0007> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> > da1: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged
> > Queueing Enabled
> > da1: 35003MB (71687372 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4462C)
> > 
> As a followup to this issue, I have been in contact with Seagate
> regarding this issue. Their recommendations were to check for IRQ
> conflicts, bad cabling, disabling SMP (not!) etc. Installing 
> IBM/Hitachi
> U320 drives does not result in this boot up message so I believe that
> the suggestions listed are not the culprit. This would leave possibly
> the scsi probe function as having a timing(?) issue or some
> incompatibility issues between Seagate and Supermicro. All 
> firmware/bios
> were as up to date as is possible. I have not had the 
> wherewithal to see
> if the Seagate drives actually suffer during normal use on 
> these systems
> as I am reluctant to put any real workload (read 
> "production") on them.
> 
> Barring any further investigation, I would recommend the fix to the
> Seagate issue is to use drives other than Seagate with this particular
> hardware setup (as I have had a few off-list responses from 
> others with
> similar problems).

FYI, upgrading the flash rom in the seagate drive will fix this
issue. I have a prog to do this under BSD if you wish.
Seagate will supply the rom image if you ask them.

rom 007 for 15K rpm drive.