LSI 1030 mpt doesn't work if I build a new kernel

[Scott Long]

eculp at bafirst.com wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Darn!
>>
>> On 9/2/06, Rod Person <rodperson at adelphia.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 20:09 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>>> > All who are having this issue- try the attached patch and see if it 
>>> helps.
>>>
>>> I applied the patch like this:
>>>        path mpt.c CHANGE
>>>
>>> rebuilt the kernel but still no luck. Same errors...
> 
> 
> Is there new information or has anyone found a solutation or workaround 
> for this problem?
> 
> My dmesg:
> mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 
> 0xdfdf0000-0xdfdfffff,0xdfde0000-0xdfdeffff irq 34 at device 5.0 on pci2
> mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.12.0
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Is the LSI-MPT BIOS disabled on your machine?  I found that I had to
start enabling it, otherwise the driver does something at boot that
makes the MPT chip stop responding.  It didn't use to be that way.

Scott