Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:43:44 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QLogic 2312 Message-ID: <20050121154038.U42327@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <1106284281l.49858l.5l@BARTON> References: <20050120171507.J53758@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> <1106284281l.49858l.5l@BARTON>
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jason Henson wrote: > On 01/20/05 18:33:04, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > > > > Hello FreeBSD gurus! > > I have a question for you. > > > > We have a small mounster: HP Proliant BL20 > > two Xeon processors, 2Gb RAM, QLogic SCSI > > 2312, and some other scary characteristics. > > > > Now, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE almost > > accidentally. I mean, it seemed to me that > > our computer got frozen when it was booting > > with the FreeBSD CDROM, no, it didn't, > > it was just taking 10 minutes to check the > > scsi card. > > > > My kernel boot log says: > > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. > > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, > > 1994 > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights > > reserved. > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 > > root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > > > ... > > > > isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem > > 0xf7dd0000-0xf7dd0fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci1 > > 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 0x3400-0x34ff mem > > 0xf7dc0000-0xf7dc0fff irq 11 at device 3.1 on pci1 > > isp1: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > isp1: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout > > isp1: Polled Mailbox Command (0x8) Timeout > > device_attach: isp1 attach returned 6 > > > > There, in the GIANT-LOCKEDs and timeouts... > > > > Now, my computer boots ok, but the booting process > > takes 20 minutes!!! > > > > I also cvsup-graded my computer, built world, installed it, > > customized my kernel, installed it. Now the kernel > > reports to be FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 but still takes > > 20 minutes to boot. > > > > My questions are: > > WHY it takes so long? > > Can I do something to fix this problem? > > > Did a google for "isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout" and the > 3rd item to come up was, I think, your answer. > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=15842+0+archive/2001/freebsd-scsi/20010729.freebsd-scsi > > It says you need to load the firmware for your scsi from /boot/ > loader.conf to boot. > > Effectively, I enabled the ROM of our scsi cards and everything worked ok. The only problem was that disc 0 became disc 2... I do not know why. It was, in my opinion a simple problem I can live with, that only took 1 minute to solve by changing my /etc/fstab. Thanks Jason! Thanks list.
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