From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Bellon Subject: Re: Qlogic driver hang Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:43:56 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F7C7FFC.9070406@mvista.com> References: <1065109530.24236.6127.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1065118590.4779.158.camel@persist.az.mvista.com> <3F7C6D9C.2000205@mvista.com> <20031002122439.A17312@jose.vato.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:10749 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263463AbTJBToE (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:44:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20031002122439.A17312@jose.vato.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Pepper Cc: sdake@mvista.com, Chris Worley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > > >I think too that different bios flash version have different settings for >enabling/disabling parity (and other things) that can make a difference. >The latest on their webpage is 1.34. I understand the firmware which the >driver downloads at load time still uses certain bits from the version >flashed to the card. Somewhere around bios 1.2x (where x was something >high..it's been a while) I had some hangs go away. All the new cards >I've gotten appear to ship with ancient BIOS's and sorely need flashing. > > The driver supports a compiled in version of the firmware and, at last look, always uses that regardless of what in out there in non-volatile storage. The firmware compiled into the 6.06 driver is 3.02.13 for the 23xx. This is a relatively new firmware. By-the-by, which HBA is being used? mark