QLogic HBAs+EMC AX100 SAN

[Lan Tran]

John Nielsen wrote:
> Quoting Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> man geom_fox
>
> geom_multipath (by mjacob as it happens) is more complete and 
> user-friendly and is/will be included with FreeBSD 7. See this (short) 
> thread:
> http://groups.google.com/group/bsdmailinglist/browse_thread/thread/c1a32120f238ca8c/0f58dd01c5ef0b16 
>
>
> JN
>
Thanks for the thread.  That is a good news.  I'll wait for 7.0-R to try 
geom_multipath or is it included in 7.0-PRE already?

Lan