HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide, February 2007

Chapter 2

Fibre Channel Adapter Installation

Verifying Connectivity

Once your HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage software and hardware is installed and running, follow these

steps to verify connectivity:

Step 1. Check the state of all Fibre Channel hardware and interfaces. Enter the ioscan command and

verify that the Hardware State and the HW-Interface State are CLAIMED.

If the Fibre Channel device file has not been created, enter the following commands:

# insf -e

# ioscan -f

Step 2. Verify that all devices you attached to the Fibre Channel adapter are listed in the ioscan output.

For example, if you have a direct attach Fibre Channel device attached to the system, the ioscan

output may look like the following:

8/12.8.0.255.0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE DGC C3400WDR5

The example above is the hardware path of LUN0 of a directly attached Fibre Channel Mass

Storage device with Loop ID of 1. For details on interpreting hardware paths for Fibre Channel

devices, see “Interpreting Hardware Paths” on page 30.

If all attached devices are not listed or appear as UNCLAIMED, see the Troubleshooting and Maintenance

chapter of the HP Fibre Channel Adapters Support Guide.