AB379A and AB379B HBA Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- AB379A and AB379B PCI-X 2.0 dual-port 4Gb FC adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows installation guide
- HP StorageWorks
- About this guide.
- Intended audience
- Related documentation
- Document conventions and symbols
- HP technical support
- Helpful web sites
- Subscriptionservice
- 1 HBA features
- Performance specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Physical specifications
- 2 Installing the HBAs
- Installation prerequisites
- Installation procedure
- 3 Installing and configuring the Linux driver
- Prerequisites
- Installing the driver kit
- Using the RPM
- Installing the fibreutils RPM
- Changing driver parameters
- Proc file system support
- Configuring the HBAs
- Starting the Configuration protocol
- Using the Driver Configuration menu
- Troubleshooting Linux
- 4 Installing the Windows drivers.
- Prerequisites
- Installing drivers using the Smart Components
- Troubleshooting Windows
- Using the Event Viewer
- A Regulatory compliance and safety
- Declaration of conformity for products marked with the FCC logo, US only
- Laser device
- Laser safety warning
- Certification and classification informati
- Laser product label.
- International notices and statements
- Canadian notice (avis Canadien)
- European Union notice
- BSMI (Taiwan)
- Japanese notice
- Korean notice
- Electrostatic discharge
- Grounding methods
- Index.
Table 5 Driver Configuration menu components
Menu Option
Description
NVRAM Parameters
1. Edit Adapter Settings Displays the Edit Adapter Settings menu.
2. Edit Advance
dSettings
Displays the Ed
it
Advanced Settings menu.
3. Edit Database Displays the Edit Database screen.
4. Edit Boot Settings Displays the Edit Boot Settings menu.
Information
5. Show Database
Displays the contents of the world wide name (WWN) database in table
form.
6. Show Translation
Displays the SCSI target ID translation table. This table is a list of SCSI
TID and Fibre Channel loop id mapping pairs. Each entry in the table
consists of
the following information abo ut each device:
•
SCSI id (TID)
•
Fibre channel loop id (LID)
•
World wide port name (WWPN)
•
Worldwidenodename(WWNN)
All numbers are in hexadecimal.
Tid values from 0x00 to 0x0A are persistent, and TID values greater
than 0x0A are assigned sequentially as devices are discovered. Tid
values greater than 0x80 are fabric-attached while those below 0x7F
are arbitrated-loop-attached.
7. S h o w N V
RAM Buffer
Displays
the
contents of the lo cal NVR AM buffer in hexadeci mal. This
is the
loc
al
buffer containing changes made prior to using the Write
selecti
on
to commit them to the HBA's NVRAM.
8. Info
Displays the following HBA information:
• EFI
device path
•
Port WWPN
•
Serial number
•
SSVID and SSDID from NVRAM
Use the device path to determine which HBA configuration is displayed.
9. Help
Displays a brief description of the menu selections.
Operation
10. Abandon
Abandons the changes in the current Configuration protocol local buffer
and reloads its contentsfromthe HBA'sNVRAM.
11. Write
Writes the current Configuration protocol local buffer to the HBA's
NVRAM. Use this function any time you use a menu selection to modify
configuration data. When the NVR A M has been successfully written, the
Configuration protocol local b uffer is reloaded from the HBA's NVR AM.
12. Quit
Quit
sthe Configuration protocol and returns to the EFI shell. You must use
the
Write selection to write any changes to the HBA's NVRAM before
quitting.
Tro
ubleshooting Linux
For
troubleshooting Linux driver-related information, check the var/log/messages file. If the qla2xxx
dri
ver detects any fabric or driver events, the information about these events reside in this file.
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