QLogic 2312

[Jason Henson]

On 01/20/05 18:33:04, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello FreeBSD gurus!
> I have a question for you.
> 
> We have a small mounster: HP Proliant BL20
> two Xeon processors, 2Gb RAM, QLogic SCSI
> 2312, and some other scary characteristics.
> 
> Now, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE almost
> accidentally.  I mean, it seemed to me that
> our computer got frozen when it was booting
> with the FreeBSD CDROM, no, it didn't,
> it was just taking 10 minutes to check the
> scsi card.
> 
> My kernel boot log says:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
> 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights
> reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
>     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> ...
> 
> isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
> 0xf7dd0000-0xf7dd0fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci1
> isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout
> isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x8) Timeout
> device_attach: isp0 attach returned 6
> isp1: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x3400-0x34ff mem
> 0xf7dc0000-0xf7dc0fff irq 11 at device 3.1 on pci1
> isp1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> isp1: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout
> isp1: Polled Mailbox Command (0x8) Timeout
> device_attach: isp1 attach returned 6
> 
> There, in the GIANT-LOCKEDs and timeouts...
> 
> Now, my computer boots ok, but the booting process
> takes 20 minutes!!!
> 
> I also cvsup-graded my computer, built world, installed it,
> customized my kernel, installed it.  Now the kernel
> reports to be FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 but still takes
> 20 minutes to boot.
> 
> My questions are:
>   WHY it takes so long?
>   Can I do something to fix this problem?


Did a google for "isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout" and the  
3rd item to come up was, I think, your answer.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=15842+0+archive/2001/freebsd-scsi/20010729.freebsd-scsi

It says you need to load the firmware for your scsi from /boot/ 
loader.conf to boot.