After the update of the system to Fedora 17 I see following in dmesg: [ 2.533582] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0035:3: MSI-X; Unsupported ISP2432 (0x2, 0x3). [ 2.533635] qla2xxx 0000:21:00.0: irq 106 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.662018] ioc0: LSIFC949E: Capabilities={Initiator,Target,LAN} [ 3.300417] scsi4 : ioc0: LSIFC949E, FwRev=01031300h, Ports=1, MaxQ=1023, IRQ=32 [ 3.301750] mptfc: ioc0: FC Link Established, Speed = 4 Gbps [ 3.302977] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access IFT A12F-G2422 347D PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 3.303260] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 3.303700] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 19529912320 512-byte logical blocks: (9.99 TB/9.09 TiB) [ 3.304295] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 3.304297] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 9b 00 00 08 [ 3.304798] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 3.317098] sdb: sdb1 [ 3.318533] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 62.816884] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0063:3: Failed to load firmware image (ql2400_fw.bin). [ 62.816889] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0090:3: Fimware image unavailable. [ 62.816891] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0091:3: Firmware images can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/. [ 63.526024] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-00c2:3: Unable to initialize EFT (258). [ 63.537148] scsi3 : qla2xxx [ 63.537491] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-00fb:3: QLogic QLE2460 - PCI-Express Single Channel 4Gb Fibre Channel HBA. [ 63.537504] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-00fc:3: ISP2432: PCIe (2.5GT/s x4) @ 0000:21:00.0 hdma+ host#=3 fw=4.00.12 (2). Especially those four lines: [ 62.816884] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0063:3: Failed to load firmware image (ql2400_fw.bin). [ 62.816889] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0090:3: Fimware image unavailable. [ 62.816891] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-0091:3: Firmware images can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/. [ 63.526024] qla2xxx [0000:21:00.0]-00c2:3: Unable to initialize EFT (258). I can see that the firmware is in the ramdisk: $ lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64.img | grep ql2400 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255320 Feb 16 16:50 usr/lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin Not sure why it is not being loaded. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64 dracut-018-40.git20120522.fc17.noarch How reproducible: Always Actual results: Firmware not loaded Expected results: Firmware loaded.
which version of kmod and udev is this? # rpm -qa kmod udev
# rpm -qa kmod udev udev-182-3.fc17.x86_64 kmod-7-2.fc17.x86_64 My workaround is to blacklist the drivers for Fibre Channel devices in dracut # cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/02-local.conf omit_drivers+="qla2xxx.ko mptfc.ko" Both external RAIDs are not needed for booting and the firmware is correctly loaded after switching from dracut to the real root device.
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