Subject: Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/05/1999 00:42:40
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:48:36PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:21:18 -0800 (PST) 
> >  Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  > > ...especially considering that a fair number of previously happy
> >  > > Qlogic ISP users now have completely useless boards.
> >  > 
> >  > No, that's not correct either. Here's an editted copy of what I sent to
> > 
> > Well, it is.  At least some AlphaStation 500 owners have reported
> > previously (i.e. before you changed the driver to always upload
> > the firmware!) that the ISP driver did NOT work with the version of
> > the firmware flashed into the board.
> 
> Any send-prs?  Did you send me any mail about it now, or did you sit on
> this information just to deliver it a week later? Oh well, nil
> importe'....

Jason tells me you have my card which exhibited exactly this symptom with
a pc164 two years ago, though it worked in an x86 box.