EMC P/N 300-002-803

Fibre Channel and FCoE out of kernel driver versions

Installing and Configuring the Linux Host with the QLogic Driver

Note: When attaching to VNX series, CLARiiON, or Symmetrix storage

arrays, EMC recommends that the ConfigRequired and ql2xfailover

parameters be set to zero in the /etc/modules.conf file.

◆To load the QLogic driver onto the system with the parameters at

the command line, use:

modprobe qla2300 extended_error_logging=1

◆In order for the modular driver to be loaded at boot time with

these parameters set to 0, a separate options line needs to be

added to the /etc/modprobe.conf file on RHEL 4.0 hosts and the

/etc/modprobe.conf.local file on SLES 9 hosts.

1. Edit the file appropriate for the distribution being used.

• For Red Hat distributions, edit:

vi /etc/modprobe.conf

• For SuSE distributions, edit:

vi /etc/modprobe.conf.local

2. Add the options line for the appropriate driver settings.

options qla2xxx extended_error_logging=1

For example, the /etc/modprobe.conf file on RHEL 4.0 might

look as follows:

alias eth0 tg3

alias eth1 tg3

alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid_mbox

alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx

alias scsi_hostadapter3 qla2xxx_conf

alias scsi_hostadapter4 qla2300

options qla2xxx extended_error_logging=1

And the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file on SLES 9 might look

as follows:

options qla2xxx extended_error_logging=1

3. After the modification to the file appropriate for your

distribution, a new ramdisk needs to be created and the host

rebooted.

• For Red Hat distributions, use:

cd /boot

mkinitrd -v initrd-

.img