Red Hat qlogic drivers incompatible with QLogic sw?

[Esquivel, Vicente]

I had a similar situation no to long ago, and it came out to be a
negotiation parameter on the SAN side.  Normally the switch is set to
2GB but Dell told us that with these new drivers it had to be set to
AUTO.

I will see if I can find the case we worked on.

But I would take it up with Qlogic, if the OS can see the cards.

Vince 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Herta 
> Van den Eynde
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:33 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Red Hat qlogic drivers incompatible with QLogic sw?
> 
> Some time ago, I installed Red Hat AS4 i386 on a HP DL580 
> with 2 QLogic QLA2340.  As the drivers seemed fairly old, and 
> the release notes suggested we'd better go with the latest 
> version, I replaced the drivers that came with Red Hat by the 
> ones on the QLogic website.  From that same website, I also 
> installed SANsurfer and scli, which basically provide two 
> interfaces to the HBAs from a running system.  I used scli to 
> configure the HBAs, and all was well.
> 
> I have now installed Red Hat AS4 AMD64 on a HP DL585, also 
> harbouring 2 QLA2340s.  The QLogic drivers are more recent, 
> and I saw no reason to upgrade them.  The matching SANsurfer 
> and scli packages from the qlogic site installed fine, but 
> unfortunately, they cannot be used.  scli complains "Info: No 
> compatible HBA(s) found in current system", and SAnsurfer 
> similarly claims it cannot connect to the local host.
> 
> Following an upgrade of the kernel on the HP DL580, and the 
> drivers that came with it, I find that both scli and 
> SANsurfer have become inoperative there as well.  You can 
> still run the software but again, it won't find the HBAs.
> 
> I can see the HBAs and the attached disks using "cat 
> /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/2"
> I can configure the HBAs from Fast!UTIL at boot time, but I 
> can no longer monitor or configure them from a running system.
> 
> It looks like I have the choice of installing the qlogic 
> drivers from the QLogic website myself, or do without the 
> configuration utitlities.
> 
> So what's the best way forward?
> Should I try to resolve this through Red Hat or through QLogic?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Herta
> 
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