On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:26:37AM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > qlogicfc attaches to both 2100 and 2200 ISPs. It seems you're then > > trying to load qla2xxx driver along with the 2300 and 2200 firmware > > loader modules. The pci_request_regions() call during 2200 probing > > fails. > > Btw, now that devfs is gone and thus DaveM's host renumbering issues > are modd we'd like to kill qlogicfc. I vaguely remember people complaing > qla2xxx made trouble on qla2100 hardware. Andrew do you have any success > or error reports for that hardware? A couple of months ago I had worked with a 2100 user who was having some serious problems within a configuration. I was able to reproduce something similar in-house and (to make a long-story, short), it turns out there are some error-recovery problems in the firmware version currently shipping in qla2xxx (1.19.25 TP firmware to be exact). After numerous trial and error efforts, we were able to find a reasonbly stable release with which the customer's configuration could recover and run (1.17.38 EF, quite old). In any case, formally, QLogic has dropped *all* support for ISP2100 cards, and thus, it's quite difficult to get any type of traction from the firmware folk to begin to root-cause the failures. I'm still in the process of ironing out the .bin distribution details locally, but perhaps once we migrate to firmware-loading exclusively via request_firmware(), the (small?) contigent of 2100 could use the EF variant I referenced above. Could I get another informal count of 2100 users who are still having problems with qla2xxx? Regards, Andrew Vasquez - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
