[SunHELP] Solaris 9 & qlogic drivers

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Tue Jul 4 13:26:29 CDT 2006


I just installed 8 of the 2340's in some E420R's and one of the steps in 
the driver readme was to update to the latest OBP firmware 
(motherboard).  This may not be relevant for your situation.

stephen price wrote:
> 1) can you see the hba's at the obp prompt by doing a
> probe-scsi-all?
> 2) are you planning to boot off emc disk? -yes or no?
> 3) did you do a reconfiguration reboot to configure
> the device tree in solaris?
> 4) did you check the qla22cc.conf for proper
> configuration?
> 5) did you consult the EMC Installation &
> Configuration guide for QLogic & Solaris?
>
> regards
> steve
>
>
> --- Monique Marais <Monique.Marais at alindigo.com>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been struggling with a driver issue for the
>> past three days - so now
>> I'm hoping someone can help.
>>
>> I have two qla2342 HBA's in a V490 and have been
>> instructed to use qlogic
>> drivers as EMC storage will be attached.  
>>
>> Using pkgadd for the drivers is simple and
>> apparently successful, but the
>> device driver utility says it cannot find the driver
>> in the path_to_inst
>> file. So assuming the fcode needed updating, I
>> downloaded
>> 2300fcode2.00.09.tar from the Qlogic web site and
>> attempted to flash the
>> card.  
>> ./qla2x00flash -l
>> /devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl 
>> ifp2300.prom
>> But get the following output:
>>
>> Device IOCTL error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>> I have all the SAN patches loaded.
>> I patchrm'd the SAN patches and tried again, but the
>> devices weren't found.
>> Re-installed SAN, but still can't flash the card.
>>
>> luxadm -e port  - gives me the following output:
>>
>> Found path to 5 HBA ports
>> /devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl      
>>           NOT CONNECTED
>> /devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1,1/fp at 0,0:devctl    
>>           NOT CONNECTED
>> /devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2/fp at 0,0:devctl      
>>           NOT CONNECTED
>> /devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2,1/fp at 0,0:devctl    
>>           NOT CONNECTED
>> /devices/pci at 9,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2/fp at 0,0:devctl      
>>           CONNECTED
>>
>> >From my understanding and according to the qlogic
>> documentation, the device
>> path should be QLGC, qla - which it clearly isn't.
>>
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas; I'd really appreciate the
>> help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Monz
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