Adaptec 29320

[Ganapathy "Krish" Krishnan]

Hi Justin,

Has the Adaptec 29320 card (and 7902W chipset) been extensively production
tested with FreeBSD?

thanks,

Ganapathy Krishnan (Krish), President & CEO
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Suite B900
Woodinville, WA 98072
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[ian j hart]

On Friday 27 August 2004 21:58, Ganapathy "Krish" Krishnan wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Has the Adaptec 29320 card (and 7902W chipset) been extensively production
> tested with FreeBSD?
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Ganapathy Krishnan (Krish), President & CEO
> 17311 135th AVE NE
> Suite B900
> Woodinville, WA 98072
> + 1.425.485.5548 Office
> + 1.425.466.9391 Mobile
> gkri...@zettasystems.com
> Zetta Systems in the news
> http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/news/storage_supersite/2003_august_04

>. jsp

> http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/news/storage_magazine/2003_july.jsp
> White Papers & Flash Demo
> http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/library/features.jsp
> http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/library/zettaFlash8.swf
>

Not sure about the 'W' but I have a 29320LP running 4.10p2. Running a year.
There were some U320 issues but these were fixed ~Feb 2004. Rock solid since.

ahd0: <Adaptec 29320 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> port 0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe9822000-0xe9823fff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI 33 or 66Mhz, 512 SCBs
ahd1: <Adaptec 29320 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> port 0xcc00-0xccff,0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xe9820000-0xe9821fff irq 15 at device 10.1 on pci0
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI 33 or 66Mhz, 512 SCBs
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.25> port 0xd000-0xd03f mem 0xe9800000-0xe981ffff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0

ahd0@pci0:10:0: class=0x010000 card=0x00429005 chip=0x80129005 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Adaptec'
device = 'ASC-29320 HostRAID RAID Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = SCSI
ahd1@pci0:10:1: class=0x010000 card=0x00429005 chip=0x80129005 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Adaptec'
device = 'ASC-29320 HostRAID RAID Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = SCSI

Caveat: The hardware you use with the board makes a difference.

--
ian j hart

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[Scott Long]

ian j hart wrote:

> On Friday 27 August 2004 21:58, Ganapathy "Krish" Krishnan wrote:
>
>>Hi Justin,
>>
>>Has the Adaptec 29320 card (and 7902W chipset) been extensively production
>>tested with FreeBSD?
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>
>>Ganapathy Krishnan (Krish), President & CEO
>>17311 135th AVE NE
>>Suite B900
>>Woodinville, WA 98072
>>+ 1.425.485.5548 Office
>>+ 1.425.466.9391 Mobile
>>gkri...@zettasystems.com
>>Zetta Systems in the news
>>http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/news/storage_supersite/2003_august_04
>>. jsp
>>http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/news/storage_magazine/2003_july.jsp
>>White Papers & Flash Demo
>>http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/library/features.jsp
>>http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/library/zettaFlash8.swf
>>
>
>
> Not sure about the 'W' but I have a 29320LP running 4.10p2. Running a year.
> There were some U320 issues but these were fixed ~Feb 2004. Rock solid since.
>

The 'W' is probably what he is reading off of the silk-screen on the
chip, and has no real significance.

[...]

> Caveat: The hardware you use with the board makes a difference.
>

Having up-to-date firmware for your drives is critical, as is making
sure that you have solid cabling. Certain revs of the 7902 are geared
for backplanes, and others are geared for cables, and neither likes
having both backplanes and cables in the same chain. 68->80 pin
converters are also typically very troublesome. So keep your cable
configuration as simple and as in-spec as possible.

Scott