On Friday 21 April 2006 21.45, Diana Eichert wrote: > Howdy > > I'm having a problem with an LSI929 FC card on a Tyan dual Opteron board. > > Here's the dmesg snippet specific to the 929 card: > > mpt2 at pci5 dev 9 function 0 "Symbios Logic FC929" rev 0x02: irq 10 > mpt2: mpt_read_cfg_header: Config Info Status 22 > mpt2: Could not retrieve Manufacturing Page 4 Header. > mpt2: could not retrieve manufacturingpages > mpt3 at pci5 dev 9 function 1 "Symbios Logic FC929" rev 0x02: irq 5 > mpt3: mpt_read_cfg_header: Config Info Status 22 > mpt3: Could not retrieve Manufacturing Page 4 Header. > mpt3: could not retrieve manufacturingpages > > Reading the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT doc I see the error is related to not > being able to read the Fusion-MPT Manufacturing Page 4. Well duh, that's > exactly what the kernel message was. >
I ran into the same thing a while ago and according to the protocol manual it seems at least older version of the 929 FW does not provide a page 4. Not sure if newer versions of the FC FW do, have not tried to update. Could be that page 4 is only provided by SCSI controllers? Anyway i think there is no need for the driver to error out on this condition although it can flag it. When the driver is run under vmware the header retrieval is completely skipped. Per
