HP AB379A, Installation Manual

Table

5

describes

the

Driver

Con

fi

guration

components.

Table

5

Driver

Con

fi

guration

menu

components

Menu

Option

Description

NVRAM

Parameters

1.

Edit

Adapter

Settings

Displays

the

Edit

Adapter

Settings

menu.

2.

Edit

Advanced

Settings

Displays

the

Edit

Advanced

Settings

menu.

3.

Edit

Database

Displays

the

Edit

Database

screen.

4.

Edit

Boot

Settings

Displays

the

Edit

Boot

Settings

menu.

Information

5.

Show

Database

Displays

the

contents

of

the

world

wide

name

(WWN)

database

in

table

form.

6.

Show

Translation

Displays

the

SCSI

target

ID

translation

table.

This

table

is

a

list

of

SCSI

TID

and

Fibre

Channel

loop

id

mapping

pairs.

Each

entry

in

the

table

consists

of

the

following

information

about

each

device:

•

SCSI

id

(TID)

•

Fibre

channel

loop

id

(LID)

•

World

wide

port

name

(WWPN)

•

World wide node name (WWNN)

All

numbers

are

in

hexadecimal.

Tid

values

from

0x00

to

0x0A

are

persistent,

and

TID

values

greater

than

0x0A

are

assigned

sequentially

as

devices

are

discovered.

Tid

values

greater

than

0x80

are

fabric-attached

while

those

below

0x7F

are

arbitrated-loop-attached.

7.

Show

NVRAM

Buffer

Displays

the

contents

of

the

local

NVRAM

buffer

in

hexadecimal.

This

is

the

local

buffer

containing

changes

made

prior

to

using

the

Write

selection

to

commit

them

to

the

HBA’s

NVRAM.

8.

Info

Displays

the

following

HBA

information:

•

EFI

device

path

•

Port

WWPN

•

Serial

number

•

SSVID

and

SSDID

from

NVRAM

Use

the

device

path

to

determine

which

HBA

con

fi

guration

is

displayed.

9.

Help

Displays

a

brief

description

of

the

menu

selections.

Operation

10.

Abandon

Abandons

the

changes

in

the

current

Con

fi

guration

protocol

local

buffer

and

reloads

its

contents from the

HBA’s

NVRAM.

11.

Write

Writes

the

current

Con

fi

guration

protocol

local

buffer

to

the

HBA’s

NVRAM.

Use

this

function

any

time

you

use

a

menu

selection

to

modify

con

fi

guration

data.

When

the

NVRAM

has

been

successfully

written,

the

Con

fi

guration

protocol

local

buffer

is

reloaded

from

the

HBA’s

NVRAM.

12.

Quit

Quits

the

Con

fi

guration

protocol

and

returns

to

the

EFI

shell.

You

must

use

the

Write

selection

to

write

any

changes

to

the

HBA’s

NVRAM

before

quitting.

Troubleshooting

Linux

For

troubleshooting

Linux

driver-related

information,

check

the

var/log/messages

fi

le.

If

the

qla2

xxx

driver

detects

any

fabric

or

driver

events,

the

information

about

these

events

reside

in

this

fi

le.

PCI-X

2.0

single-port

and

dual-port

4Gb

FC

adapters

for

Itanium

Linux

and

Windows

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