Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:03:06 -0500 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QLogic HBAs+EMC AX100 SAN Message-ID: <20080107160306.xv38wi6v40cw4s4g@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080107205333.GA86111@in-addr.com> References: <47826194.1080703@hangwithme.com> <47826992.10200@samsco.org> <47828A47.4050100@hangwithme.com> <20080107205333.GA86111@in-addr.com>
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Quoting Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:23:35PM -0500, 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. > > man geom_fox geom_multipath (by mjacob as it happens) is more complete and user-friendly and is/will be included with FreeBSD 7. See this (short) thread: http://groups.google.com/group/bsdmailinglist/browse_thread/thread/c1a32120f238ca8c/0f58dd01c5ef0b16 JN
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