"Firmware timed out" with qlogic 2312 FC cards

[Matthew Jacob]

On 7/13/2010 1:07 PM, Leo Prasath Arulraj wrote:
> I am running  scsi target mode disk emulation code on a QLogic 2312 FC 
> card. My OS version is : 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD . This FreeBSD machine 
> acts as the target while a separate Linux machine acts as the 
> initiator accessing the FreeBSD machine as target.

make sure

isp_2300_load=YES

is in your loader.conf

>
> I am seeing "Firmware timed out" errors on the FreeBSD side :
>
>
> isp0: isp_action code 933
> (targ0:isp0:0:0:0): isp_target_start_ctio: CTIO2[207c] flags 40 xfrlen 
> 0 offset 4096
> isp0: RISC2HOST ISR 0x2f08013
> isp0: Firmware timed out on command
> isp0: data CTIO complete
> isp0: isp_handle_platform_ctio: CTIO2[2034] sts 0xb flg 0x840 sns 0 
> resid 0 MID
> isp0: MIDTERM  CTIO[0x2034] done
>
>
> And I see UNDERRUN errors on the Linux side :
>
> [ 1661.998946] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
> [ 1661.998955] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK 
> driverbyte=DRIVER_TIMEOUT
> [ 1661.998973] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> 00 08 00
> [ 1661.999024] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
> [ 1662.219095] comp_status 21 scsi_status 0
> [ 1662.219118] scsi(0:0:0) UNDERRUN status detected 0x15-0x0. 
> resid=0xda fw_resid=0x0 cdb=0x12 os_underflow=0x0
> [ 1662.219137] scsi(0:0:0:0) Dropped frame(s) detected (da of fe 
> bytes)...firmware reported underrun...retrying command.
>
>
> I changed the ct_timeout field of a CTIO in the isp_freebsd.c file to 
> 120 from 10:
>
> isp_freebsd.c:1624:        cto->ct_timeout = 120; // was 10
> isp_freebsd.c:1658:        cto->ct_timeout = 120 ; // was 10
>
> Is there someway I can fix this ? Or should I handle it the userspace 
> program by retrying commands. I suspect something goes wrong with the 
> firmware because , after this error happens, subsequents requests also 
> fail.
>
> Should I update the firmware assembly file isp_2300.h ? Where should I 
> get the assembly version of the firmware from ?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo.
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