SUMMARY: 280R with additional qlogic HBA

From: Anshuman Kanwar <anshuman_at_expertcity.com>
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 18:45:04 EDT
Hmm there go my $80-on-ebay-HBA's :)

Thanks Jeff and others who might answer.

Anshuman Kanwar   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Horwitz [mailto:jhorwitz75@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:28 PM
> To: Anshuman Kanwar
> Subject: RE: 280R with additional qlogic HBA
> 
> 
> the isp2100's are not supported on the ultrasparc-iii 
> platform.  you'll
> probably find a message stating this if you run 'dmesg'.  you have to
> upgrade to an isp2200 based model.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of 
> Anshuman Kanwar
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 6:16 PM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: 280R with additional qlogic HBA
> 
> 
> Hi Managers,
>  I am trying to connect a qlogic (ISP2100A) based HBA ( PCI 
> to FCAL) on a
> 280R. running Solaris 5.9.
> 
> 1) The card is plugged into PCI 1 slot, which is the only 
> 66MHz PCI slot.
> 2) the other end of the fiber is connected to a A5200 running 
> in split mode.
> Plan is to connect 2 280-R's to two halves of the A5200.
> 3) The A5200 shows no signal on its GBIX.
> 4) I ran devfsadm -v  but no devices were detected
> 
> 5) prtdiag shows
> ========================= IO Cards =========================
> 
> 
>                          Bus  Max
>      IO   Port Bus       Freq Bus  Dev,
> Brd  Type  ID  Side Slot MHz  Freq Func State Name
> Model
> ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
> --------------------------------  ----------------------
> I/O   PCI   8    B    2    33   33  3,0  ok    
> pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000.1
> 
> I/O   PCI   8    B    2    33   33  3,1  ok    SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001
> SUNW,qsi-cheerio
> I/O   PCI   8    A    1    33   66  1,0  ok    
> scsi-pci1077,2100.1077.1.4
> 
> The 3rd entry seems to be the qlogic card but the corresp. 
> QLC entries never
> show up.
> 
> 6) I've checked all relavent drivers are installed.
> 
> i.e SUNW-
> fcp
> fcpx
> ifp
> ifpx
> qlc
> qlcx
> usoc
> usocx
> 
> 
> If I try to plug in the same card into a e420 instead of the 
> 280, the whole
> setup works beautifully.
> 
> Only difference I can think of is that the 280 has FC drives 
> internally as
> opossed to the 420.
> 
> What am I missing ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ansh
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