Re: Sparc Linux PTI SBS450S-10704 SCSI controller

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

     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? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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