Installing the MPT Fusion HBA Drivers for Linux

Adapter Part No.	Output of lspci Command
AD168A	Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Helios-X LightPulse Fibre Channel
	Host Adapter (rev 01)
AE311A	Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. QLA2432 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 02)
AD300A	Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. QLA2432 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 02)
A8002A	Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Zephyr LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev
	01)
A8003A	Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter
	(rev 02)
403619-B21	Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. QLA2432 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 02)

If any entries are shown that match the model numbers listed, update the driver using the following steps:

1.Go to http://www.hp.com/.

2.Click Software & Drivers.

3.Click Download drivers and software (and firmware).

4.In the For Product field, enter the model number of your Fibre Channel adapter (for example, A6826A).

5.Press Go.

6.Select the appropriate OS from the Product search results list.

7.Click the Download button for the latest Linux Driver Kit for Qlogic HBAs and Qlogic-based mezzanine HBAs driver to obtain a tar archive of all necessary files

NOTE: All drivers for a given brand of adapter are contained in one driver kit. In this case, all drivers for Qlogic adapters are contained in this driver kit.

8.Unpack the driver files in the kit. For example, the following command could be used:

#tar zxvf hp_qla2x00-date.tar.gz

9.Change to the directory that was created in the previous step.

10.Install the driver:

#./INSTALL

For additional information, see the documentation that is included with the Linux Driver Kit for Qlogic HBAs and Qlogic-based mezzanine HBAs.

Installing the MPT Fusion HBA Drivers for Linux

Support for the HP Insight Management Agent for the Core 8 port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HBA on the rx2660 server, or BL860c, and BL870c server blades is not included with the MPT Fusion driver that is shipped with the Red Hat and Novell Linux distributions. However, HP Insight Management Agent support is included with the MPT Fusion driver that is shipped with RHEL4.6 and RHEL4.7.

If you are running HP Insight Management Agents for these HBAs on one of the listed servers, you must update the driver using the following steps:

1.Go to the http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers/ website.

2.Click on the appropriate product link for your server.

3.Click the Download drivers and software link.

4.Select a software/driver language from the list.

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