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To: Stephen Comoletti <scomoletti@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: alpha/30905: reboot hang when using qlogic 1040/isp based driver
 on freebsd 4.0-4.4
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This is a very good question. The driver *should* function with the strange
vendor specific f/w that Digital SRM loads- but clearly there was a problem
here in this case. You wouldn't happen to have a SCSI analyzer to throw on
this and tell me what the hell happened would you?

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Stephen Comoletti wrote:

> Adding ispfw_load="YES" fixed the problem. Just out of curiosity, why has 
> this behavior changed from 3x to 4x that now requires manual intervention 
> after a new install to load the firmware?
> 
> Thanks for the help and the quick reply also.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Steve
> 
> >From: <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>
> >To: scomoletti@hotmail.com, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, 
> >mjacob@FreeBSD.org
> >Subject: Re: alpha/30905: reboot hang when using qlogic 1040/isp based 
> >driver on freebsd 4.0-4.4
> >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Synopsis: reboot hang when using qlogic 1040/isp based driver on freebsd 
> >4.0-4.4
> >
> >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> >State-Changed-By: mjacob
> >State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 22:23:30 PDT 2001
> >State-Changed-Why:
> >Need feedback.
> >
> >
> >Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mjacob
> >Responsible-Changed-By: mjacob
> >Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 22:23:30 PDT 2001
> >Responsible-Changed-Why:
> >My driver. This is the first I've heard of this kind of hang for a while.
> >Can you retry and make sure that Qlogic firmware is being loaded
> >by adding the line
> >
> >ispfw_load="YES"
> >
> >to /boot/loader.conf or manually stopping the boot and doing
> >
> >load ispfw
> >
> >at the 'ok' prompt? Please also do a
> >
> >verbose="YES"
> >
> >to get a verbose boot.
> >
> >http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30905
> 
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