McDATA 8832 warranty Port Properties

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3.Right click on the desired port and choose "port properties" from the menu.

4.At the top of port properties put a bullet next to "offline" or "down".

5.Repeat steps 1-4 and reverse step 5 to online the port.

Figure 12 Port Properties

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Parameters	Recommended settings
BIOS	Disabled
Frame size	2048
Loop reset delay	5 (minimum)
Adapter hard loop ID	Disabled
Hard loop ID	0
Execution throttle	100
Fast command posting	Enabled
>4 GB addressing	Disabled (for 32-bit systems)
LUNs per target	0
Enable LIP reset	No
Enable LIP full login	Yes
Enable target reset	Yes Note: Enable LIP reset, Enable LIP full login, and Enable target reset
	parameters control the behavior of the adapter when Windows tries to do a
	SCSI bus reset. You must perform a target reset to make cluster failovers
	work. Use the SCSI bus device reset option to clear SCSI reservations.
Login retry count	20 (minimum)
Port down retry count	20 (minimum)
Driver load RISC code	Enabled
Enable database updates	No
Disable database load	No
IOCB allocation	256
Extended error logging	Disabled

Table 1 Recommended settings for the QLogic QLA23xx adapter card for Windows 2000 or 2003

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