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From: Marcin Gryszkalis <mgryszkalis@cerint.pl>
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Subject: Re: da driver problem?
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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)?

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Marcin Gryszkalis <mg@cerint.pl>
or <dagoon@math.uni.lodz.pl>


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