difficulty connecting to SAN storage with qlogic 2200

[Jim Jarocki <jarocki@startribune.com>]

hello all,

i'm having some difficulties getting a debian system to connect to our san 
storage.  some quick system info:

jarocki@ptah:~$ uname -a
Linux ptah 2.4.27 #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 12:54:05 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
jarocki@ptah:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
qla2200_conf          300796   0 (autoclean)

so it would appear that i have the module to support the card successfully 
compiled and loaded.  however, when i boot up, the system hangs while it 
tries to connect.  even the console hangs.  from 'dmesg':

qlogicfc0 : Loop Reinitialized
qlogicfc0 : Link is Up
scsi0 : QLogic ISP2200 SCSI on PCI bus 05 device 48 irq 18 base 0x1000
qlogicfc0 : Fabric found.
qlogicfc0 : Error performing port login 4005
qlogicfc0 : Error performing port login 4005
<repeats the above line>

<no console access (no response) and ssh hangs>
<until i unplug the fibre>

qlogicfc0 : Error performing port login 4005
qlogicfc0 : Link is Down
qlogicfc0 : Error performing port login 4005
qlogicfc0 : Get All Next failed 4005.
qlogicfc0 : Port Database
wwn: 210000e08b012ce3  scsi_id: 0  loop_id: 0
es1371: version v0.32 time 12:55:36 Jan  3 2006
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64

so, what am i missing?  probably something fairly obvious and basic, but 
that wouldn't be the first time... :P

any help would be much appreciated.  thanx in advance.

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Jim Jarocki
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