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Cambex AIX User Manual

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  • Page 1

    Fibrequik fibre channel host bus adapter for aix user guide cambex corporation 115 flanders road. Westborough, ma 01581 customer support support@cambex.Com document: 081-468-042 date: 01/06/04 rev.: c.

  • Page 3: Table of Contents

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide table of contents table of contents......................................................................................... 1 description................................................................................................... 2 specifications....

  • Page 4: Description

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide description the cambex fibrequik ™ fibre channel host bus adapters provide attachment of fibre channel devices to pci or micro channel based servers. They support the scsi-fcp protocol. When used with the cambex alternate channel failover software, two ad...

  • Page 5: Aix Driver Installation

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide aix driver installation command line driver installation the name and revision level of a driver may be examined by issuing the command (as root): installp -ld where is replaced by /dev/fd0 for the floppy drive, /mnt/aix/pc1000.Image for a cd-rom mounted ...

  • Page 6: Smit Driver Installation

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide where is as described above. Example: installp -acd /dev/cd0 all after installing the driver, see the readme file for additional information more /usr/lpp/cbxfc/read_me smit driver installation the smit path is software installation and maintenance instal...

  • Page 7: Aix Configuration

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide aix configuration during power-up initialization, aix will find and configure the new adapter(s) and any supported devices using the driver's configuration method. Devices are assigned a scsi id as they are discovered starting with 0. Scsi id is not relat...

  • Page 8: Persistent Bindings

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide persistent bindings persistent bindings is the term used to indicate the mapping of scsi id to fc worldwide name (wwn). By keeping a persistent binding, the loop id or port id of a device may change and the device will still be properly addressed. In the ...

  • Page 9: Generate Error Report

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide login after lip (yes) full duplex in loop mode (no) attributes used to limit data rate or resources used execution throttle (256 simultaneous i/o) iocb allocation (256) dma window size (pci only, 64mb) max frame size (1024) or 512, 2048. Fibre channel rat...

  • Page 10

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide example, if errpt identifies a loose cable on device cda1, lsdev will give an address similar to: cda1 available 00-02-01-3,0 cambex scsi... Which indicates that the adapter is in location 00-02, and the drive is at scsi id 3, lun 0. Checklist for driver ...

  • Page 11

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide lscfg -vl scsi4 should print more information for a card: device location description scsi4 20-58 cambex ... Manufacturer................Cambex machine type and model......Pc1000f ros level and id............V2.01.19 serial number............... 579 displ...

  • Page 12

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide • full_duplex enables higher performance in loop mode where all connected devices support it. P2p is inherently full duplex. • fibre channel topology is normally found automatically but may be forced to loop_only or p2p_only with this attribute. • frame_s...

  • Page 13

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide topology: nl al_pa: 0xef adapter_id: 0 or for fabric: topology: f port_name: 0x00011000 adapter_id: 255 make sure that the id value doesn't conflict with any other host or device on the same fibre channel loop. The other attributes will be different on ea...

  • Page 14: Appendix A

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide appendix a map of scsi id to arbitrated loop physical address (alpa). Id alpa id alpa id alpa id alpa 0 ef 1 e8 2 e4 3 e2 4 e1 5 e0 6 dc 7 da 8 d9 9 d6 10 d5 11 d4 12 d3 13 d2 14 d1 15 ce 16 cd 17 cc 18 cb 19 ca 20 c9 21 c7 22 c6 23 c5 24 c3 25 bc 26 ba 2...

  • Page 15: Pc2000 Led Meanings

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide pc2000 led meanings top led – transceiver hardware is detecting a signal. Middle led – firmware is being synchronized. Bottom led – flashing amber when not synchronized. Led norm bad cable no conn top green green off middle green off off bottom off flashi...

  • Page 16: Declaration of Conformity

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide declaration of conformity we cambex corporation of waltham, massachusetts, usa, declare under our sole responsibility, that the products pc-1000, pc-1000f, mc-1000 and mc-1000f are in conformity with the following standards: en 55022:1994/a1:1995/a2:1997 ...

  • Page 17: Safety Notices

    Fibrequik - fibre channel adapter user guide safety notices safety notice class 1 laser product versions of this product supplied with an optical transceiver meet the safety requirements of a class 1 laser as specified by the us food and drug administration center of drug and radiological health (cd...