Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 21:29:35 +0200 From: Marcin Gryszkalis <mgryszkalis@cerint.pl> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: da driver problem? Message-ID: <3D54181F.1010309@cerint.pl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091208590.23518-100000@root.org>
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Nate Lawson wrote: > To be more specific, the Qlogic isp* cards ALWAYS require you to load > firmware to give full access to the drive and do anything useful. In the > x86 world, the isp boards only have enough code included on board to > manage int 13h for bootstrapping the OS and attempting to use them without > loading firmware is not defined. With the Qlogic 2xxx boards in > particular, NetBSD and FreeBSD won't even boot without loading the > firmware (kernel hangs after probing the card). I *think* I never had this - I didn't have loader.conf - and It worked without problems :) Now I got It but I cannot reboot the box from remote - so I'll test it tomorrow. Or - do you think it would be possible to kldload ispfw and reinitialize the system some magic way (w/o rebooting)? -- Marcin Gryszkalis <mg@cerint.pl> or <dagoon@math.uni.lodz.pl> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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