Re: difficulty connecting to SAN storage with qlogic 2200

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 11:11 -0600, Jim Jarocki wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> i'm having some difficulties getting a debian system to connect to our san 
> storage.  some quick system info:

so the san disk is the boot device? or an secondary disk?

> 
> 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)

what is the full listing of lsmod, qla2200_conf is not the fiber card
driver (per se), it gives you the ability to do some configuring of the
driver.

> 
> 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

so this looks like you are using the qlogicfc module. i dont think the
qla2200* modules are compatible with the qlogicfc module. how did you
get the qla2000 modules?

we are using san disks as boot devices in our environment and what i did
was make modules from the qla2x00-source and then create an initrd image
to load those modules:

$ lsmod | grep qla
qla2200               281188   2  (autoclean)
qla2200_conf          300828   0  (autoclean)

$ cat /etc/mkinitrd/modules
scsi_mod
sd_mod
qla2200_conf
qla2200
reiserfs

-matt zagrabelny

ps. i received a copy of this email via alex jokela as well.