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Doug Beattie

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2000-08-29 18:07 UTC #0 lore raw

Matt and others:

I am seeing some similar behavior on a BigSur I have, but changing the Qlogic BIOS to enable addresses >4GB just added to the problems.

1. Does anyone else have a problem getting into the Qlogic Fast!Util on their IA64 system?
I have to place the card into a 32 bit system to access the bios and make a change, then place it back into my BigSur to try it.

2. I see the timeouts when the kernel is probing for device information as well as when trying to look for partitioning, etc. I see this with a 2.4.0-test1 release from Caldera Systems. (I do not see the problem with an internal test release we built withing SCO. It handles the card just fine.) Any ideas?

3. With addressing >4GB turned off, probing for targets only finds one device as it should at sda. With addressing >4GB enabled a device, (the same drive), is detected on both channels 0 and 1 on each of the 0-15 targets. This probing yields devices sda through sdz and sdaa through sdad being seen by the kernel. With the addressing >4GB enabled after seeing all these bogus devices I get a Panic <NULL> due to panic @0x890171. Looking at a back trace shows I'm in the qla1280 driver code calling a status routine from the isr function. I don't get this with addressing >4GB disabled.

I believe I get the timeouts because the interrupts are not being seen by the kernel properly.

I don't know why I can't get to the Qlogic bios with the altQ method on an IA64 even though it says the key strokes have been detected.

Thanks for any help you may provide.

Doug
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Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] ia64 redhat 7 beta
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:58:28 -0500
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You need to enable support in the QLogic BIOS for addresses > 4GB. That will take care of it.
Thanks,
Matt Domsch
Dell Enterprise Systems Group
IA-64 Linux Lead Engineer
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Subject: [Linux-ia64] ia64 redhat 7 beta
This morning (8/28) I picked up the 8/25 redhat ia64 iso off their site.
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/ia64/iso/
When trying to boot of the cd I had made, I timed out on every SCSI target. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior? I tried it on two of my newer BigSur systems, and both had the same issues.
scsi(0) : ABORT Command 0xe
scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi 0, channel 1, id 7, lun 0, inquery 00 00 00 ff 00.
Eventually I am able to boot off the cd and the install times out while formatting my partitions (the alt-f4) console shows something like:
<4>scsi(0): ABORT Command=0xe00000000009ed40, handle=0x11 <4>SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<4>scsi(): Resetting Cmnd=0xe00000000009f940, Handle=0xe, flags=0x2 <6>scsi(0:0:0:0): Queueing device reset command.
<4>scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0,scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 0f b0 40 00 00 02 00
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Uros Prestor

2000-08-29 18:52 UTC #1 lore raw

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1. Does anyone else have a problem getting into the Qlogic Fast!Util on their IA64 system?

Yes. Don't bother entering Qlogic setup on BigSurs -- the system will hang.

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I have to place the card into a 32 bit system to access the bios and make a change, then place it back into my BigSur to try it.

I was able to boot both test6 and test7 kernels on BigSurs without any Qlogic BIOS changes. I had to enable >4G addressing on Lion systems when booting test6 kernels.

Uros

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David Mosberger

2000-08-29 19:04 UTC #2 lore raw

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I have to place the card into a 32 bit system to access the bios and make a change, then place it back into my BigSur to try it.

Uros> I was able to boot both test6 and test7 kernels on BigSurs Uros> without any Qlogic BIOS changes. I had to enable >4G Uros> addressing on Lion systems when booting test6 kernels.

If you have a bigsur with >=4GB of memory, you can use kernel option mem=4g to ignore the high memory for now. Thanks to the work of BJ Nima, the next qlogic driver will be able to deal with >=4GB memory machines even if the controller operates in 32-bit mode (at the expense of performance).

	--david

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2000-08-29 19:20 UTC #3 lore raw

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I have seen issues where entering the QLogic SCSI BIOS utility would hang the system. However, with the recent BIOS builds, I was able to enter the set up with no hangs and configure the SCSI drives.

I think I used build 60.

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