On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:40:59PM -0400, David Cooley wrote:
>
> Mine started doing that on the second PTI card I installed... Got looking
> at the boot messages where it first detects the cards... My old one
> (working fine) is detected as ultra scsi... the "new one" is detected as
> fast scsi... Both cards have the same SUN part number on them, but the
> "new" one has ver 1.71 on the sticker on the prom on the board, and the
> "old" one (the one that works all the time) has 1.73 on it. The code read
> by the kernel driver in the boards is 1.21 for the one that fails and 1.25
> on the good one.
All 3 cards i have build into my SparcServer 5 are Version 1.21 (by label
on the chips and also on detection)
Probably this all is an Firmware problem. BTW: Mine are all detected as
Fast-Wide controllers
Sep 12 15:37:00 puke kernel: qpti0: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware 1.21
95/05/18) [Fast Wide, using single ended interface]
Sep 12 15:37:00 puke kernel: qpti1: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware 1.21
95/05/18) [Fast Wide, using single ended interface]
Sep 12 15:37:00 puke kernel: qpti2: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware 1.21
95/05/18) [Fast Wide, using single ended interface]
Sep 12 15:37:00 puke kernel: QPTI: Total of 3 PTI Qlogic/ISP hosts found,
3 actually in use.
So - Which way to go for new Firmware ?
Flo
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