Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:54:52 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Lan Tran <lan@hangwithme.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QLogic HBAs+EMC AX100 SAN Message-ID: <4782919C.9050805@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <47828A47.4050100@hangwithme.com> References: <47826194.1080703@hangwithme.com> <47826992.10200@samsco.org> <47828A47.4050100@hangwithme.com>
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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. > Lan There isn't much multipath support in FreeBSD. It's up to the host adapter card to manage that right now, and I don't know if the Qlogic cards do that or not. You might talk to Matt Jacob <mj@feral.com>. Scott
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