Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:57:11 -0800 (PST) | From | Robert Dinse <> | Subject | Re: Sparc Linux PTI SBS450S-10704 SCSI controller |
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No, this is a brand new board. Looking at the driver; I notice there is a define for downloading the firmware. If I were to set that to zero, would the driver just work using the code that is already on the board?
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Some older PTI boards didn't have NVRAM you could download into. Is this > an old old one? > > If not, it's possibly true then there's a driver bug. > > > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Robert Dinse wrote: > > > > > According to various faqs I've read, Qlogic/ISP ISP1000 based disk > > controllers including those made by PTI are supported. > > > > So, needing to connect some single-ended ultra-wide SCSI disks and needing > > more I/O than the 10mb/s fast-narrow controller could accomodate, I purchased a > > PTI SBS450S-10704 SCSI controller and attempted to install it on a Sun 4/670MP > > running Linux 2.2.13, using a kernel I built which did include the ISP drivers. > > > > The probe-scsi-all command saw this controller and all the drives attached > > fine despite being document as not being supported. > > > > When I tried to boot linux, I got the following error: > > > > qpti0: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 <0>qlogicicpt0: Firmware dload failed, I'm bolixed! > > Kernel Panic: SBUS Qlogic/ISP firmware load failed. > > > > It then proceeded to do the: > > > > AIEEE Interupt handler... something or other and then spinlocks... > > > > There must be a secret but I don't know what it is. Can anyone enlighten > > me as to what the magic incantations are that are necessary to get this to > > work? > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > >
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