SUMMARY: installing KGPSA-CX (HBA)

From: Cohen, Andy (Andy.Cohen_at_cognex.com)
Date: 07/18/05

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    ORIGINAL QUESTION
    =================

    I'll summarize the original question for brevity. Basically I wanted to
    know how to determine if the operating system (Tru64 5.1A PK6) was
    'seeing' a newly installed KGPSA-CX card in an alphaserver 800.

    SUMMARY
    =======
    1 - Since the card was not actually connected to anything (in our case a
    3PAR SAN) the message that the connection was DOWN was appropriate.
    2 - Since it's not a scsi device it won't show up in "hwmgr -show scsi"
    nor "scu show edt". Issuing a "hwmgr -view hier" however does show the
    card correctly:

    $$$==> hwmgr -view hier
    HWID: hardware hierarchy
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    -------
       1: platform AlphaServer 800 5/500
       2: cpu CPU0
       6: bus pci0
    ...
    ...
    ...
      60: connection pci0slot14
      62: fibrechannel_adapter emx0
      63: scsi_bus scsi3

    That along with my two other previously issued commands:

    $$$==> emxmgr -t emx0
     
    emx0 state information:
      Link : connection is DOWN
      Link is SCSI bus 3 (e.g. scsi3)
              SCSI target id -1
              portname is 1000-0000-C923-BA1E
              nodename is 2000-0000-C923-BA1E
      There are no connected N_Ports in the topology

     
    from /var/adm/messages:
                                            emx0 at pci0 slot 14
                                            KGPSA-CA : Driver Rev 2.11 : F/W
    Rev
                                             _3.91A1(2.20A0) : wwn
                                             _1000-0000-c923-ba1e
                                            emx0: Using console topology
    setting
                                             _of : Fabric
                                            emx0: emx_linkup_timedout: link
    up
                                             _timeout has expired

    Gave me a very high level of confidence that this is working properly.

    Many responses all saying the same thing. Thanks to all that replied
    (Dr. Tom Blinn, Rob Leadbeater, Walter North, Thomas Sjolshagen, Frank
    Lennon, Tom Smith, John Lanier, Alan Davis, Johan Brusche)!

    Andy

    All that's left is to determine which topology to use (loop or fabric).
    We're not using a switch for our SAN (which would imply that we're NOT
    fabric) but we have to speak with the vendor to be sure.


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