RE: [BK PATCH] SCSI update for 2.6.3

Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-25T16:46:26Z

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

Eric

On Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:29 AM, Joe Korty wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:23:32PM -0500, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> > Please try the attached patch.
> > Apply against the 2.6.3 kernel, which
> > comes with mpt fusion 3.00.02 driver.
> >
> > I expect the same results from mptbase, however
> > mptscsih driver should load without the panic
> > in mptscsih_init. Please send dmesg if there
> > still are issues.
>
> Hi Eric,
> My failing Opteron system (IDE disk, no SCSI disk) now boots
> with your
> 2.6.3 Fusion patch in place. My good Opteron system (SCSI
> disk, no IDE
> disk) also continues to boot with this patch in place.
>
> Thanks!
> Joe
>
> PS: Although booting, the boot messages from the once-failing system
> indicate some rather unnerving failures. Should I be concerned?
>
>
> Fusion MPT base driver 3.00.04
> Copyright (c) 1999-2003 LSI Logic Corporation
> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
> mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Doorbell ACK timeout(2)!
> mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Diagnostic reset FAILED! (102h)
> mptbase: ioc0 NOT READY WARNING!
> mptbase: WARNING - ioc0 did not initialize properly! (-1)
> mptbase: probe of 0000:02:0a.0 failed with error -1
> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
> mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Doorbell ACK timeout(2)!
> mptbase: ioc0: ERROR - Diagnostic reset FAILED! (102h)
> mptbase: ioc0 NOT READY WARNING!
> mptbase: WARNING - ioc0 did not initialize properly! (-1)
> mptbase: probe of 0000:02:0a.1 failed with error -1
> Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.00.04
>