User`s guide

4 – QLA2342/2342L

FCode

FC2354601-00 J 4-5

NOTE:

■

SunSPARC systems do not display the BIOS banner.

■

Enable the BIOS only if the boot device is attached to the

QLA2342/2342L HBA. This allows the system to boot faster.

■

For further information about enabling the QLA2342/2342L HBA BIOS,

see section 15.

If the information displayed on your monitor is correct, congratulations! You have

successfully installed the QLA2342/2342L HBA in your computer.

See section 15 for detailed instructions on how to customize the QLA23xx HBA and

its attached devices using the Fast!UTIL BIOS utility.

If you need FCode (Solaris SPARC systems), see section 4.3 for instructions on

how to install or update the FCode on the QLA2342/2342L HBA.

See the appropriate section for detailed instructions on how to install the software

drivers.

If the information displayed is not correct and you have checked the QLA2342/2342L

HBA’s configuration, see section 6 for troubleshooting information.

4.2.1

Installation Help

If your system has an IDE hard disk, it may be assigned device number 80, which

is the boot device. If your system does not have an IDE hard disk, a parallel SCSI

host bus adapter (HBA), or a RAID adapter, the first bootable FC hard disk

configured (the one with the lowest ID) is assigned device number 80 and becomes

the boot device. The QLA2342/2342L HBA BIOS must be enabled if the boot device

is connected to the QLA2342/2342L HBA.

If you have a selectable boot BIOS and want to boot to an FC hard disk, set the

motherboard BIOS parameters to None or Not Installed. The ROM BIOS on the

QLA2342/2342L HBA automatically configures the FC peripherals.

Some new system BIOSs support selectable boot, which supersedes the

QLA2342/2342L HBA BIOS selectable boot setting. Select the QLA2342/2342L

HBA FC hard disk in the system BIOS to boot from an FC hard disk attached to the

QLA2342/2342L HBA.

4.3

FCode

This section provides instructions for installing FCode on a QLA2342/2342L HBA

installed in a Solaris SPARC system. A QLA2342/2342L HBA with FCode loaded

in its flash ROM provides boot capability to its attached devices.