Re: Sparc Linux PTI SBS450S-10704 SCSI controller

Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:52:13 -0800 (PST)


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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