Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI update for 2.6.3

[Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:46:00AM -0500, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> I don't see the banner displayed by the driver
> which would contain the FwRev, Ports, MaxQ, IRQ.
> I suspect hw/fw issues with the card itself.
> 
> What happens when you attach drives to the card;
> e.g. does the driver load then?
> 
> Can you upgrade your firmware to the latest.
> http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/selectDownload.do


Hi Eric,
Problem solved.

The Fusion chip is soldered onto the motherboard.  I went into
the BIOS and discovered a little selection called (paraphrased)
'Execute LSI firmware' which was disabled.  When I enabled it,
all the boottime Fusion errors and warning went away.

This is a dual Opteron system branded 'Celsius' and made by
Fujitsu/Siemens.

It would be great if the driver could detect this and print
a 'is the LSI Fusion firmware enabled?' message in the log.

Regards, and thank you for looking into this,
Joe