Hello all, I'm taking my first steps with OpenBSD on my sun4m (LC) and there was a QLogic wide-SCSI board, model n: SP1610402-01, occupying one of the SBus slots.
On this machine I've installed OpenBSD 4.9/sparc. In the 'supported devices' section of the INSTALL.sparc file, it includes 'QSP/ISP SCSI controllers (i.e. "PTI,ptisp", "ptisp", "SUNW,isp" and "QLGC,isp") (isp)'. Based on the message below, which mentions 'isp0', I conclude that this QLogic board corresponds to one of these and is theoretically supported. However, during the initial post-installation boot, the process was interrupted by the following message, of which the last two lines were repeated ad nauseam. --- BEGIN --- isp0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x10000 isp0: board type 1020A rev 0x0, loaded firmware rev 1.37.0 scsibus1 at isp0: 16 targets, initiator 7 isp0: Request Queue Transfer Error isp0: board type 1020A rev 0x0, loaded firmware rev 1.37.0 --- END --- When I removed the board, the system booted with no problem. So I dusted the board off, re-installed it and tried again. The message reappeared. (1) Is there a means to circumvent this interruption whilst leaving the board installed? (2) Is the board (a) defective, (b) simply not supported, or (c) have I inadvertently discovered some strange problem? Some background information. Previously I was playing with NetBSD (4.something) on this system and the board was present. The system never complained, although I do not recall trying to _use_ the board with a wide-SCSI device. Since this will soon be my only system able to connect to my wide-SCSI devices, I would like to retrieve this functionality. Thanks for your help! - Alex
