problems w/isp0 on MiataGL since 4.7-RELEASE

[Wilko Bulte]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:22:06PM -0700, Jim wrote:
> I have seen the following problem, first when booting from the
> 4.7-RELEASE floppies.  I also saw it after successfully installing
> 4.6.2-RELEASE, while upgrading to the most recent 4.8-STABLE (after
> make installkernel, during the reboot into single-user):
> 
> <snip>
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> isp0: command timed out for 0:15:0
> isp0: command timed out for 0:14:0
> isp0: command timed out for 0:13:0
> isp0: command timed out for 0:12:0
> (probe7:isp0:0:8:0): isp0: watchdog timeout for handle 0x8
> (probe7:isp0:0:9:0): isp0: watchdog timeout for handle 0x9
> (probe7:isp0:0:10:0): isp0: watchdog timeout for handle 0xa
> (probe7:isp0:0:11:0): isp0: watchdog timeout for handle 0xb
> isp0: cannot find handle 0xb (status 0x6)
> isp0: cannot find handle 0xa (status 0x6)
> isp0: cannot find handle 0x9 (status 0x6)
> isp0: cannot find handle 0x8 (status 0x6)
> </snip>
> 
> The same portion of a normal dmesg (from a 4.6.2-RELEASE kernel) looks
> like:
> 
> <snip>
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a
> da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <DEC RZ2CC-KA (C) DEC 5520> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da0: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C)
> da1 at isp0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <DEC RZ2CC-KB (C) DEC DC2B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da1: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C)
> </snip>
> 
> With this problem, none of the SCSI disks are detected correctly.
> 
> Does anyone know of changes related to the isp driver between
> 4.6.2-RELEASE and 4.7-RELEASE that may have caused this problem?

Do you have ispfw.ko loaded? If not, I suggest to give that a try. mjacob,
the isp(4) author strongly suggests getting the firmware from the .ko and
not the isp firmware from the SRM.

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