AE311A and AD300A -- HBA Installation Guide

Conﬁguring the HBAs

This section describes how to conﬁgure the HBAs on Linux systems using the Conﬁguration protocol

Driver Conﬁguration menu.

NOTE:

This processisfor advanced userswho want to customize the conﬁguration of the HBAs and the

connected d

evices.

This section includes:

•Starting the Conﬁguration protocol, page 17

•

Using the Driver Conﬁguration menu,page18

Starting the Conﬁguration protocol

To conﬁgure the HBA on Linux, access the Conﬁguration protocol as follows:

1. Use the ﬁbreutils RPM package to obtain efiutil (efiutil.efi) and the auxiliary driver, as

described in "Installing the ﬁbreutils RPM" on page 16.

2. Power on the server to the EFI shell.

3. Start efiutil as follows (the auxiliary driver is automatically loaded if it is needed):

a. Set the drive to the boot device (for example, fs1:).

b. Change to the directory containing efiutil. For example, enter:

cd efi\qla2xxx

c. Run eﬁutil:

efiutil.efi

Enter Help at any time for information about commands.

d. Select the HBA channel that you want to conﬁgure by selecting adapter.

e. Select conﬁgure.

4. Conﬁgure the HBA’s NVRAM by selecting the menu items for the parameters to be changed, as

described in "Using the Driver Conﬁguration menu" on page 18.

5. Write the new conﬁguration to NVRAM.

6. Exit the utility (select quit).

7. Reboot the system.

AE311A PCI-e single-port 4Gb FC adapter and AD300A PCI-e dual-port 4Gb FC adapter for Linux and

Windows systems installation guide