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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:30:03 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>,
	Marcin Gryszkalis <mgryszkalis@cerint.pl>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG,
	freebsd-alpha <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: da driver problem?
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:16:45PM -0700, 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).

Not true, in a generic sense. It depends on what the card has loaded in
its flash as far as f/w goes.

> Perhaps a comment should go into GENERIC above the isp entry saying to
> be sure to enable ispfw_load?  Or perhaps the hardware notes that go in
> the release?

'man isp'

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