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qlc fibre channel card broken?

Post by Casey Fesken » Thu, 26 Jul 2001 05:16:14



I just received a new StorEdge single-channel PCI Fibre Channel card for
my 220R.  I've had no luck trying to get it to even see our StorageTek
disk array over it's interface.  I've tried a non-Sun Fibre Channel
card, which works great, but I can't even get any info out of a
probe-scsi-all, which should find existing targets.
Instead, my probe-scsi-all returns the following results:


LiD HA LUN --- Port WWN --- ----- Disk description -----
Port Database command failed - unable to get WWN (4006) LiD = 0

Illegal Instruction
ok

I'm running Solaris 8 11/00, but that shouldn't even matter at this
point, should it?  Am I dealing with a hardware failure here?  Anyone
have any ideas for me?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

---------------------------------------------

System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
Willamette Integrated Technology Services
Willamette University, Salem, OR
---------------------------------------------

 
 
 
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qlc fibre channel card broken?

Post by Tony Siriann » Thu, 26 Jul 2001 06:24:39


Try updating the OBP(firmware).  I had an issue just like this on a E420R.

Tony


> I just received a new StorEdge single-channel PCI Fibre Channel card for
> my 220R.  I've had no luck trying to get it to even see our StorageTek
> disk array over it's interface.  I've tried a non-Sun Fibre Channel
> card, which works great, but I can't even get any info out of a
> probe-scsi-all, which should find existing targets.
> Instead, my probe-scsi-all returns the following results:


> LiD HA LUN --- Port WWN --- ----- Disk description -----
> Port Database command failed - unable to get WWN (4006) LiD = 0

> Illegal Instruction
> ok

> I'm running Solaris 8 11/00, but that shouldn't even matter at this
> point, should it?  Am I dealing with a hardware failure here?  Anyone
> have any ideas for me?

> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

> ---------------------------------------------

> System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
> Willamette Integrated Technology Services
> Willamette University, Salem, OR
> ---------------------------------------------


 
 
 
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qlc fibre channel card broken?

Post by Tony Siriann » Thu, 26 Jul 2001 06:28:21


Also after flashing OBP you should be able to do a probe-fcal-all

Tony


> I just received a new StorEdge single-channel PCI Fibre Channel card for
> my 220R.  I've had no luck trying to get it to even see our StorageTek
> disk array over it's interface.  I've tried a non-Sun Fibre Channel
> card, which works great, but I can't even get any info out of a
> probe-scsi-all, which should find existing targets.
> Instead, my probe-scsi-all returns the following results:


> LiD HA LUN --- Port WWN --- ----- Disk description -----
> Port Database command failed - unable to get WWN (4006) LiD = 0

> Illegal Instruction
> ok

> I'm running Solaris 8 11/00, but that shouldn't even matter at this
> point, should it?  Am I dealing with a hardware failure here?  Anyone
> have any ideas for me?

> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

> ---------------------------------------------

> System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
> Willamette Integrated Technology Services
> Willamette University, Salem, OR
> ---------------------------------------------

 
 
 
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qlc fibre channel card broken?

Post by Lyle Merda » Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:28:04


I think this patch may fix your problem:
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/private-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=111473&rev=01

If thats not the right patch look at this page:
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/private-cgi/retrieve.pl?type=0&doc=infodoc/20029

Lateron,

Lyle


: Also after flashing OBP you should be able to do a probe-fcal-all

: Tony



:> I just received a new StorEdge single-channel PCI Fibre Channel card for
:> my 220R.  I've had no luck trying to get it to even see our StorageTek
:> disk array over it's interface.  I've tried a non-Sun Fibre Channel
:> card, which works great, but I can't even get any info out of a
:> probe-scsi-all, which should find existing targets.
:> Instead, my probe-scsi-all returns the following results:
:>

:>
:> LiD HA LUN --- Port WWN --- ----- Disk description -----
:> Port Database command failed - unable to get WWN (4006) LiD = 0
:>
:> Illegal Instruction
:> ok
:>
:> I'm running Solaris 8 11/00, but that shouldn't even matter at this
:> point, should it?  Am I dealing with a hardware failure here?  Anyone
:> have any ideas for me?
:>
:> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
:>
:> ---------------------------------------------

:> System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
:> Willamette Integrated Technology Services
:> Willamette University, Salem, OR
:> ---------------------------------------------
:>
:>

 
 
 
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qlc fibre channel card broken?

Post by gshowalte » Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:29:23


Casey,

Those sun cards are proprietary from what I'm told and will only function
with SUN diskbased storage products.   SOME and not all fibre cards may or
may not have rom support.  I know JNI adapters won't probe through at the
PROM level either and its not a bug.  Now on some after market scsi adapters
it is necessary to disable autoboot and set it to NO  to be able to
probe-scsi-all <sounds ridiculous and is not an option for alot of us>.  I
hope this helps.  Your not having a hardware problem if you can see the
stuff with the OS up.  I am a bit curious as to what fibre card your using
and how you like your StorageTek array though.

GS

 
 
 
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1. Switch Fibre Channel question: qlc versus qla driver...

Hi:

I have designed and implemented many SAN's using
Sun, EMC, Switches and JNI/Qlogic/Emulex HBA's.

Now I'm doing the same with Sun (v880), Hitachi (9960),
and Qlogic (QLA2200F/66). The configuration I
inherited is completely arbitrated loop, with home
run cabling between the HBA's and the array. I'm going
to convert it into a SAN by putting a switch in
between.

==========================
My question are these:
=========================
(1) Does Sun support FC-SW using the native
     /kernel/drv/qlc & qlc.conf, and if so, does
     anyone have a sample configuration file?

     qlc.conf does not have a man page, and
     the comments within it only refer to arbitrated
     loop examples.

     If the answer is no, are you using the qla / qla.conf
     driver direct from Qlogic's web site.

     BTW... the HBA's were purchased from Sun
     (option number 6799A).

ANSWER: ____________________________

(2) If it turns out that I need to install the qla driver
     from Qlogic, how does one preven conflict between
     the two drivers (qlc (SUN) & qla (Qlogic)).

ANSWER: ____________________________

(3) How do I extract the firmware revision of the HBA
     using luxadm, OBP commands, or what ever other
     method.

ANSWER: ____________________________

Unfortunately there is alot of hiding of information
(it took me more work than was necessary, for example,
to get the What Works With What (WWWW) compatibility
matrix).

TIA,
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