Qlogic FC-card can't find disk on SATAbeast

Ingeborg Hellemo Ingeborg.Hellemo at cc.uit.no
Thu Aug 9 12:23:26 UTC 2007


kheuer2 at gwdg.de said:
> In such a case I'd try to boot the system using Knoppix or any other Linux
> system. Maybe this will give you some additional diagnostics which helps  to
> make progress with FreeBSD. On the other hand, if Linux doesn't see the  disk
> too, you'd have to look closer to your hardware. 

New data point:

We moved the card to a machine running CentOS with drivers from Qlogic and 
experienced no problems in finding the drive, making partitions etc.

I guess this means that there are no HW or wiring problems and that the 
problems lies within the isp(4) driver.


Suggestions?


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Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo  --  ingeborg at cc.uit.no  (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)




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