qlogic isp 6312 device not showing up

Tue Mar 21 15:02:26 UTC 2006

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Eric Anderson wrote:

> jason kawaja wrote:
>> ibm xseries 346, dual xeon dual core with qlogic fc card.
>> 
>> external disk device shows up within the qlogic bios (once wwid is 
>> correctly added to the disk array manager,ibm shark) however does not 
>> show from within freebsd. any ideas? information below.  thank you.
>> 
>> isp0: <Qlogic ISP 6312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 
>> 0xdefff000-0xdeffffff irq 96 at device 4.0 on pci4
>> isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> isp0: bad hard address 125- resetting to zero 
>
> I'm guessing the "bad hard address 125" is the problem.  Sounds like 
> you manually set a hard address in the BIOS - is that necessary for 
> your configuration?

it is not set manually, defaults are set. is 125- a truncated number? 
could a malformatted partition (on the fc disk device) cause this 
behavior?

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Jason Kawaja 2-4568
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