Hello,

I'm trying to connect a 3510 fibre channel storage array to a V20z
(AMD opteron) box running
64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

Both the 3510 and the V20z are sun products:

http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/3000/3500/3510/
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/

I tested the 3510 by connecting it to a sparc box running Solaris 9
(with the SAN packages installed).
The sparc box and the 3510 worked well together.

Next, I put a fibre channel card in the V20z:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pri...Single_FC.html

I ran a cable from the 3510 to the fibre channel card in the V20z.

I booted the V20z.

Result:
-no link light on the 3510
-both amber and green light on the fibre channel

So, I'm curious:

- Have you ever successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre channel
connection?
- Do you know of anyone who has successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre
channel connection?
- Is there anything I should be aware of when attempting to set this
up?
- How would you trouble shoot my no-link-light problem?

-Thanks,

-moi

Roberto Devo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to connect a 3510 fibre channel storage array to a V20z
> (AMD opteron) box running
> 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
>
>
> I tested the 3510 by connecting it to a sparc box running Solaris 9
> (with the SAN packages installed).
> The sparc box and the 3510 worked well together.

> I ran a cable from the 3510 to the fibre channel card in the V20z.
>
> I booted the V20z.
>
> Result:
> -no link light on the 3510
> -both amber and green light on the fibre channel
>

You stated you're using DeadRat on the V20z rather than Solaris. Are
you sure that there is a driver for the HBA in question, and more
importantly, is it loaded?


--
Coy Hile
hile@cse.psu.edu

Roberto Devo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to connect a 3510 fibre channel storage array to a V20z
> (AMD opteron) box running
> 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
>
> Both the 3510 and the V20z are sun products:
>
> http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/3000/3500/3510/
> http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/
>
> I tested the 3510 by connecting it to a sparc box running Solaris 9
> (with the SAN packages installed).
> The sparc box and the 3510 worked well together.
>
> Next, I put a fibre channel card in the V20z:
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pri...Single_FC.html
>
> I ran a cable from the 3510 to the fibre channel card in the V20z.
>
> I booted the V20z.
>
> Result:
> -no link light on the 3510
> -both amber and green light on the fibre channel
>
> So, I'm curious:
>
> - Have you ever successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre channel
> connection?
> - Do you know of anyone who has successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre
> channel connection?
> - Is there anything I should be aware of when attempting to set this
> up?
> - How would you trouble shoot my no-link-light problem?
>
> -Thanks,
>
> -moi


http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/816/816...16-5000-14.pdf

Before installing the Sun StorEdge 2 Gb FC PCI Single Channel network
adapter on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.0 system, ensure that
the host has the required driver for the Sun StorEdge 2 Gb FC PCI
Single Channel network adapter. This driver is supplied by QLogic.

Note that with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.0 systems, you
cannot boot with the QLogic Linux driver. Therefore, these host bus
adapters (HBAs) must not be in the boot path.

From the public Sun Solve page at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...2GB_FC_AL.html

It is clearly a Qlogic 2310 chipset.

A quick look at the Qlogic website shows that the RedHat drivers for
the 2310 can be found at:
http://www.qlogic.com/support/os_det...id=125&osid=26

So it's just a matter of reading the documentation.

Elias