Speaking of Fibre-channel problems...

[Tim Spencer]

	I've been using qlogic 2312 FC cards in my FreeBSD 4.11 hosts  
without problems (aside from lack of multipathing and so on :-), but  
when I tried to use them in a new AMD64 SMP FreeBSD 6.x host that I'm  
trying to qualify for our production environment, I'm having  
problems.  The card doesn't seem to be able to join the fabric.  The  
card's LEDs both light up while the system is booting, but after the  
isp driver initializes, it just goes to a yellow blinky light which I  
have come to associate with "I have not been initialized correctly".   
I turned on CAMDEBUG and hacked isp_prt to print everything out, and  
this is what I got during the boot up:

... (hundreds of repeats of the next 3 lines)
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: RISC2HOST ISR 0x40000010
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: RISC2HOST ISR 0x40008010
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: usec1998392: 0xdcc880dc- 
 >0xdcd86a92 enano 0x0000fe9b6
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: RISC2HOST ISR 0x40000010
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: RISC2HOST ISR 0x40008010
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: usec1999434: 0xdcde08dd- 
 >0xdcede8c1 enano 0x0000fdfe4
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: kthread: FC state ungood
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: kthread: waiting until called
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: RISC2HOST ISR 0x40000010
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E/K. 
9A> at ata0-master UDMA33
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 4
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 last message repeated 4 times
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 901
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 4
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 4
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 901
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 4
Feb  7 17:02:25 Xsc-db3 kernel: isp0: isp_action code 4
... (hundreds of repeats of the previous 3 lines)

	Unfortunately, I don't have the start of all this, because it filled  
the dmesg space up and scrolled it off the top.  Here's some more  
info on the system:

: Xsc-db3.soma.ironport.com []#; uname -a
FreeBSD Xsc-db3.soma.ironport.com 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1:  
Tue Feb  7 16:47:28 PST 2006     root at Xsc-db3.soma.ironport.com:/usr/ 
obj/usr/src/sys/MESSAGING_GATEWAY.amd64_INSTALL  amd64
: Xsc-db3.soma.ironport.com []#;

I have this in MESSAGING_GATEWAY.amd64_INSTALL:

# tspencer temporary hack
options CAMDEBUG
options CAM_DEBUG_BUS=-1
options CAM_DEBUG_TARGET=-1
options CAM_DEBUG_LUN=-1
# Qlogic FC card stuff
device         isp             # Qlogic family
device         ispfw           # Firmware for QLogic HBAs- normally a  
module

	Anyways, has anybody else solved this sort of problem?  And if not,  
does anybody have any suggestions as to how to figure out what is  
going wrong?  Thanks, and have fun!

		-tspencer