Qlogic 2340 problems

[Matthew Jacob]

This is actually very very interesting to me. Flashing the BIOS
*shouldn't* matter, but this is now the second (unrelated) incident
I've heard where it does in very odd ways.

No- on this- thank *you*. It's a path I would have not have thought to
take and try and now will.

On 10/10/06, kreios at gmail.com <kreios at gmail.com> wrote:
> We tried updating the cards firmware to an older version thinking that
> maybe the version it came with broke something since an identical card
> with an older firmware worked.  After flashing the card it started to
> work.  Flashed it to the latest version to see if it would fail again
> and it continued to work.  *sigh*
>
> The good news, I am working.  The bad news is I am not sure what was
> really wrong.
>
> Thanks for you help,
> Dave
>
> On 10/10/06, kreios at gmail.com <kreios at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/10/06, Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's an odd one. It means that the DMA of the ICB failed.
> > >
> > > Three questions:
> > >
> > > a) Tell me more about this system
> >
> > Supermicro PDSMi Motherboard, 1G of RAM, Pentium D 3.4GHz CPU, 80G
> > SATA hard drive in a 1U chassis.
> >
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015M-MR.cfm
> >
> > > b) Is this still a problem for the latest RELENG_6 branch changes?
> >
> > Have not tried yet. I am compiling it now and will give it a go.  I
> > have another system that has the same card running 6.1 release that is
> > working.  I am going to take it down tonight and look for differences.
> >
> > > c) Can you try a test kernel?
> >
> > Yes.  The system is new and I have only loaded the OS and just started
> > testing to make sure all hardware worked before fully configuring the
> > box.  I have remote serial console, remote KVM, and remote power to
> > the box so its a good box to play on.
> >
> > >
> > > On 10/9/06, kreios at gmail.com <kreios at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I having problems getting this card to attach in FreeBSD 6.1.  dmesg
> > > > shows the following:
> > > >
> > > > Qlogic ISP Driver, FreeBSD Version 5.9, Core Version 2.10
> > > > isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem
> > > > 0xed200000-0xed200fff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci3
> > > > isp0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xed200000
> > > > isp0: using Memory space register mapping
> > > > ioapic1: routing intpin 0 (PCI IRQ 24) to vector 49
> > > > isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > > > isp0: Board Type 2312, Chip Revision 0x2, loaded F/W Revision 3.3.6
> > > > isp0: 839 max I/O commands supported
> > > > isp0: NVRAM Port WWN 0x210000e08b8fa3b0
> > > > isp0: Mailbox Command 'INIT FIRMWARE' failed (HOST INTERFACE ERROR)
> > > >
> > > > BIOS has been enabled in the card and the module ispfw has been
> > > > loaded.  Card works in Windows XP.  Not sure what to try next.  Card
> > > > is hooked to a Brocade Silkworm 300 switch.  Disks I am trying to see
> > > > are on an Apple Xserve RAID box.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for you time,
> > > > Dave
> >
> > Dave
> >
>