Emulex 3.4 user manual Situation Resolution Some cases, after loading an OEM, Maintenance menu

Table 17: Emulex Driver for Linux and HBAnyware Situations (Continued)

Situation	Resolution
In some cases, after loading an OEM	1. Download the current OpenBoot only image for your adapter
supplied combined firmware/OpenBoot	from the Emulex web site.
image you will not be able to enable	2. Load the current OpenBoot only image following steps listed
BootBIOS from the lputil Boot BIOS	in Updating BootBIOS section of this manual.
Maintenance menu.	3. Run lputil, return to Boot BIOS Maintenance menu.
If you encounter this problem after loading
	4. Enable BootBIOS.
the OEM combined firmware/OpenBoot
image, follow the steps outlined in the
resolution.
rmmod fails to unload lpfc driver module	Make the Logical Volume Group unavailable.
due to ERROR: Module lpfc is in use.	Type: lvchange -a n xxxxxxx
This message can appear when you attempt	where xxxxxx is the Volume Group Name.
to remove the driver and there is a Logical
Volume Group dependent on the driver.
LP1005DC-CM2 reported as the	None at this time.
LP1050DC. When running lspci or kudzu
utilities, you may see the Emulex FC Host
Adapter LP1005DC-CM2 reported as the
Emulex FC Host Adapter LP1050DC for the
pci_id address f0a5. This is due to a delay in
getting the pci_id tables updated in the Red
Hat and SuSE distributions.
An lspci will show recent Emulex HBAs	None at this time.
as "unknown". This is because of the delay
of getting new product ID's into the Red Hat
and SuSE development cycle.
Slow targets or extended link faults on the	This version of the driver should eliminate this problem.
storage side may result in storage being	However, if you experience off-line device issues, increase the
marked off-line by the mid-layer and	SCSI command timeout to a value greater than or equal to sixty
remaining off-line (not recovered) when	seconds. Emulex also provides a script which addresses this
the link faults are corrected.	issue (for 2.6 kernels). To access the lun_change_state.sh
	script, click http://www.emulex.com/support/linux/index.jsp, then
	click the link to the appropriate driver, and click the Linux tools
	link.
Under certain conditions of an I/O load,	Emulex provides a script which addresses this issue. To access
some targets cannot retire an I/O issued	the set_target_timeout.sh script, click http://www.emulex.com/
by a Linux initiator within the default	support/linux/index.jsp, then click the link to the appropriate
timeout of 30 seconds given by the scsi	driver, and click the Linux tools link.
midlayer. If the situation is not corrected, the
initiator-to-target condition deteriorates into
abort/recovery storms leading to I/O failures
in the block layer. These types
of failures are preceded by a SCSI IO error
of hex 6000000.
lpfc driver fails to recognize an HBA and	Upgrade HBA firmware to minimum supported revision listed in
logs "unknown IOCB" messages in the	installation guide (or newer).
system log during driver load. The HBA is
running outdated firmware.

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