From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 05:03:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2783116A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:03:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD35543D54 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:03:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from BARTON (cpe-065-184-201-054.ec.rr.com [65.184.201.54]) j0L53RKj007685; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:03:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:11:21 +0000 From: Jason Henson To: Eduardo Viruena Silva References: <20050120171507.J53758@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20050120171507.J53758@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> (from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx on Thu Jan 20 18:33:04 2005) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.6 Message-Id: <1106284281l.49858l.5l@BARTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QLogic 2312 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:03:41 -0000 On 01/20/05 18:33:04, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: >=20 >=20 > Hello FreeBSD gurus! > I have a question for you. >=20 > We have a small mounster: HP Proliant BL20 > two Xeon processors, 2Gb RAM, QLogic SCSI > 2312, and some other scary characteristics. >=20 > 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. >=20 > My kernel boot log says: >=20 > 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 >=20 > ... >=20 > isp0: 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: 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 >=20 > There, in the GIANT-LOCKEDs and timeouts... >=20 > Now, my computer boots ok, but the booting process > takes 20 minutes!!! >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 =20 3rd item to come up was, I think, your answer. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D15842+0+archive/2001/freebsd= -scsi/20010729.freebsd-scsi It says you need to load the firmware for your scsi from /boot/=20 loader.conf to boot.