qlogic isp 6312 device not showing up

[Eric Anderson]

jason kawaja wrote:
> 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?

I'm no fiber channel guru - but I doubt it.  You may go into the bios on 
the card and see if hard addresses are set.  I set mine to not use hard 
addresses, and it works fine. 


Are you loading the ispfw.ko from the loader?


Eric



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