Re: Dell CERC (aac driver) issue after upgrade to 6-STABLE

[Chris Knight <boheme@xxxxxxxxx>]

As of 9:00am (PST) on January 31st, this seems to have been fixed in
-STABLE.  After re-syncing my source tree and rebuilding from the same
conf file the problem has gone away.

-Chris

On 1/31/06, Chris Knight <boheme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1800 to replace my mail server.  It
> has two 3.2 Xeon processors, 2G of ECC memory, and a Dell CERC SATA
> RAID controller with two 160G Maxtor drives in a RAID 1 mirror.  The
> Dell CERC appears to be an Adaptec RAID controller, and it is detected
> by the aac driver.
>
> I donwloaded the ISO for FreeBSD 6.0 i386 and installed it tonight.
> So far, so good.
>
> I rebuilt the RELEASE kernel with SMP options.  So far, so good.
>
> I synced to 6-STABLE, made world, recompiled the SMP kernel.
>
> Now when I reboot I get to the detection of the RAID controller and my
> screen is scrolling with the following errors:
>
> aac0:  COMMAND 0xc6588000 TIMEOUT AFTER 559 SECONDS
> aac0:  COMMAND 0xc6588000 TIMEOUT AFTER 579 SECONDS
> aac0:  COMMAND 0xc6588000 TIMEOUT AFTER 599 SECONDS
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem?  What do I need to do to fix it?
>
> -Chris
>