[Info-vax] RX4640 and Fibre channels

[Kari Uusimäki]

FC loop topology isn't supported on VMS - only Fabric.
I doubt you'll ever get that setup to work.



On 21.3.2012 16:46, Joukj wrote:
> 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