QLogic HBAs+EMC AX100 SAN

[Gary Palmer]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:35PM -0500, Lan Tran wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> >Lan Tran wrote:
> >>I'd like to direct connect a FreeBSD-6.2 system to an EMC AX100 SAN 
> >>using 2 QLogic 23xx series HBAs.  Here is the dmesg output:
> >>isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 
> >>0xdfdff000-0xdfdfffff irq 39 at device 12.0 on pci2
> >>isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> >>isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout
> >>isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x8) Timeout
> >>device_attach: isp0 attach returned 6
> >>
> >>isp1: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 
> >>0xdfbff000-0xdfbfffff irq 37 at device 11.0 on pci3
> >>isp1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> >>isp1: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout
> >>isp1: Polled Mailbox Command (0x8) Timeout
> >>device_attach: isp1 attach returned 6
> >>
> >>During boot the system would hang after for awhile then continue.  I 
> >>have created a LUN and assigned it to this system, but the OS does 
> >>not see it.  What am I missing?  What commands should I try from the 
> >>OS?  Does anyone have a similar setup working with the QLogic HBAs?  
> >>AX100 used to be connected to RHEL but I want to use FreeBSD instead :).
> >>
> >>Lan
> >
> >Did you compile in or load the ispfw module?  Without it, FC 
> >operations are severely limited.
> >
> >Scott
> Thanks for a quick reply, Scott.
> 
> I added ispfw_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf and now system can boot up 
> fast. 
> # camcontrol devlist -v
> scbus0 on isp0 bus 0:
> <DGC RAID 5 0217>                  at scbus0 target 125 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
> <  >                               at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus1 on isp1 bus 0:
> <DGC RAID 5 0217>                  at scbus1 target 125 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
> <  >                               at scbus1 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0:
> <  >                               at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0)
> 
> Next question is can I do multipath with ISP driver?   The EMC AX100 has 
> two "processors" for redundancy. 

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