Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 23:06:30 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange panic on Alpha, SCSI disk *type* related Message-ID: <199911202206.XAA16183@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911201125070.6541-100000@semuta.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Nov 20, 1999 11:28: 9 am"
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As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > The Qlogic copyright issues have been resolved and the f/w is about ready > to go back into the tree, but I tend to agree with Drew here that you > should upgrade your SRM. When the f/w does go back into the tree, it's > probable that it *won't* be enabled to be compiled in by default (because I have an excellent case that (copyrights aside) this should be possible (putting the f/w in the driver): my machine is an Aspen Alpine, which has EB64+ firmware running. It runs the latest SRM available (which is ancient) and to add to the problem it has the SRM in EPROM, not in flash. > the driver supports multiple cards with multiple f/w sets, the f/w was > beggining to add 100KB to the driver.... completely outta hand...). Big, I agree. But I rather have a bigger kernel than a panic :-( Wilko > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > > > > > Best guess is currently that something in the isp driver changed that made > > > the marriage of the IBM disk and the isp card a less than happy one. > > > > > > > <...> > > > > > isp0: Board Revision 1040B, resident F/W Revision 2.10.0 > > > > <..> > > > > The isp change is that due to problems with the Qlogic firmware > > copyright, Matt felt he had to remove the Qlogic firmware from the > > FreeBSD (and NetBSD) trees. Your card is now running with the > > firmware that is loaded by the SRM console (2.10) rather than the > > firmware that the isp driver was previously able to download (7.x). > > This may be the cause of your problems. > > > > If it is possible, try to upgrade your SRM console firmware to a more No go, see above. > > recent version. Modern revs of the srm console tend to load 5.x of > > the qlogic firmware which might help you. I'm running with 5.54.1 on > > a number of machines here & have not seen problems. Isn't it possible to flash the f/w onto the isp card itself? Or does the Alpha always use the f/w contained in the SRM? The same cards also run in a PC, so without the notion of SRM... Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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