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Re: emulex LP8000 HBA

2000-12-13 12:58:01
Subject: Re: emulex LP8000 HBA
From: Joel Fuhrman <joelf AT CAC.WASHINGTON DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:58:24 -0800
It took a process of comparing the different cards on the Emulex web
page.  Since its a short card with only 2 jumpers, it was an lp8000.  After
running cfgmgr, an lsdev -C shows lpfc0 as Emulex LP8000 Fibre Channel
Adapter.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Suad Musovich wrote:

> How can you tell whether it's a LP8000 (short of ripping off the lid)?
>
> Cheers, Suad
> --
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:25:17AM -0800, Joel Fuhrman wrote:
> > I'm trying to configure a new H80 AIX 4.3.3 host with TSM 4.1.1 using an
> > Emulex LP8000 host bus adapter connected to an STK 9840 fibre channel disk
> > drive.  Per the installation instructions in the Quick Start Guidem I loaded
> > the fibre channel pre-req's for the fcrte fileset; but they seem to be for
> > the Emulex LP7000 card.  Config manager, cfgmgr, wants the level 8 drivers
> > which I don't believe IBM released.  So I loaded the drivers from Emulex.
> > Cfgmgr will configure the devices; but "smit tsm_devices" fails to list or
> > find any fiber channel devices.
> >
> > If you have a working config using the Emulex LP8000 would you mind sharing
> > how you set it up?
>
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