[Info-vax] RX4640 and Fibre channels

[Jilly]

"Joukj" <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote in message 
news:jkcpju$9dp$2 at speranza.aioe.org...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Rx4640,which boots OpenVMS V8.4 fine. Presently I try to get a 
> FibreChannel storage (DS2400) working, but up to now no success.
>
> The controler looks within OpenVMS like this:
> Device FGA0:, device type QLogic ISP23xx FibreChannel, is offline, 
> shareable,
>     error logging is enabled.
>
>     Error count                    2    Operations completed 3
>     Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
>     Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W
>     Reference count                0    Default buffer size 0
>     Current preferred CPU Id       0    Fastpath 1
>     Current Interrupt CPU Id       0
>     FC Port Name 2100-00E0-8B02-6299    FC Node Name 2100-00E0-8B02-6299
>
> Device FGB0:, device type QLogic ISP23xx FibreChannel, is online, 
> shareable,
>     error logging is enabled.
>
>     Error count                    0    Operations completed 3
>     Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
>     Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W
>     Reference count                0    Default buffer size 0
>     Current preferred CPU Id       1    Fastpath 1
>     Current Interrupt CPU Id       1
>     FC Port Name 2100-00E0-8B02-049D    FC Node Name 2100-00E0-8B02-049D
>
> (The only difference between FGA and FGB is that FGB has no cable 
> connected and that FGA is connected to the storage array.)
>
> No disk-devices are visible.
>
>
> What bothers me is that when I go into the EFI-shell before booting, I do 
> not see the device at all (I gave the command "devices")
>
> One Idea was that maybe the EFI driver was missing. However when invoking 
> the efiutil command from the firm-ware- CD
> ( 
> http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=ux-36767-1&
> taskId=135&swLang=8&swEnvOID=2061&prodNameId=331475&lang=en&cc=us&idx=0&mode=4&
> )
> it tells me that no FC-devices are present and that the driver cannot be 
> "updated"
>
>
>
> Any idea what maybe the problem?
>
>
>                                       Jouk

Have the fibre ports of the storage appliance been zoned to either/both of 
these HBAs?

$ SET TERM/WID=132
$ ANALYZE/SYSTEM
FC SET DEV FGA
FC SHOW NAME
FC SET DEV FGB
FC SHOW NAME

Do you see the WWPN's of the storage ports.

Have the storage luns been presented to these HBAs with a non-zero device 
identifier that VMS requires?

SAN config in VMS is passive.  VMS can only use the luns that have been 
presented to it thru the storage ports that have been zoned in with the 
system's HBAs.  Once VMS can 'see' these luns it will create UCBs for them 
when a SYSMAN IO AUTO is executed.

You can also use the following to get a bit more detail as to what is 'seen' 
on the SAN.

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC IOGEN$VERBOSE TRUE
$ MCR SYSMAN IO AUTO/LOG
$ DEASSIGN/SYSTEM/EXEC IOGEN$VERBOSE

$ MCR SYS$ETC:FIBRE_SCAN

Jilly