Red Hat qlogic drivers incompatible with QLogic sw?

[Herta Van den Eynde]

Thanks for your reply, Vince.

Unfortunately, both the HBAs and the switch have data rate set to AUTO 
already.

Kind regards,

Herta

Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
> 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
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>>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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