qlogic isp 6312 device not showing up

[jason kawaja]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, 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?

it seems on the qla200 (bios 1.23) there is no way to alter the loop 
address and is set to 125 (assuming).  on a qla23xx (bios 1.25) the loop 
address is configurable from 0-125 and can also be disabled (perhaps 
automatic then?).

after getting the scsi errors resolved on the remote fc device, the 
problem remains so i am going to replace the current qla200 card with 
qla23xx to see if the fc device can then be seen by freebsd.  (the 
qla23xx card previously worked on a similar freebsd system.)

i should note that i've tried some other solutions found within the list 
that include disabling acpi without positive results.

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Jason Kawaja 2-4568
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