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LSI 7202CP LSI7202CP, Host Adapter, Characteristics, 2.1General Description, 2.1.1 Features, 2.1.2Hardware and Software Support

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Chapter 2

LSI7202CP

Host Adapter

Characteristics

This chapter provides instructions for installing and extracting the host adapter board and includes these topics:

•Section 2.1, “General Description,” page 2-1

•Section 2.2, “Technical Characteristics,” page 2-3

2.1General Description

The LSI7202CP is a CompactPCI dual channel 2 Gbit/s Fibre Channel host adapter. The following sections describe the features of and the hardware and software support for the LSI7202CP.

2.1.1 Features

The LSI7202CP adapter supports these features:

•Hot-swap CompactPCI/PCI installation and removal

•Asynchronous and synchronous transfers

2.1.2Hardware and Software Support

The LSI7202CP supports most major software operating systems, such as Sun Solaris (2.6 and higher), Windows Server (NT 4.0, 2000, XP,

.NET), Linux (RedHat, Suse, Caldera, Turbo), NetWare, UnixWare, HP- UX, and OS/2. The LSI7202CP host adapter utilizes the Fusion-MPT™architecture for all major operating systems. Fusion-MPT architecture offers the unique feature of having a single, binary operating system driver that supports Fibre Channel devices and other bus architectures.

LSI7202CP CompactPCI Dual Channel 2 Gbit/s Fibre Channel Host Adapter 2-1

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Contents

USER’S GUIDE Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices Page Page Preface Conventions Used in This Manual Revision Record Contents Solaris Software Requirements Appendix A Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Index Customer Feedback Figures Installing/Extracting the LSI7202CP Host Adapter 1.1Host Adapter Installation 1.1.1 Cold Installation Preparation 1.1.2 Hot Installation Preparation 1.1.3 Installation 1.2 Extracting the LSI7202CP 1.2.1 Cold Environment Extraction 1.2.2 Hot Environment Extraction Page LSI7202CP Host Adapter Characteristics 2.1General Description 2.1.1 Features 2.1.3 Fibre Channel Cable Assemblies 2.2 Technical Characteristics 2.2.1 Bus Interfaces 2.2.1.2 PCI Interface 2.2.1.3 Fibre Channel Interface 2.2.2 Technical Speciﬁcations 2.2.2.4 Thermal and Atmospheric Characteristics 2.2.2.5Electromagnetic Compliance 2.2.2.6 Safety Characteristics BIOS Features 3.1BIOS Features 3.1.1 Intel BIOS 3.1.2 Starting the Intel BIOS Conﬁguration Utility 3.1.3 Using the Intel BIOS Conﬁguration Utility 3.1.3.3 Persistent IDs Menu Add WWN Erase 3.1.3.4 Device Properties Menu 3.1.4 Exiting the Intel BIOS Conﬁguration Utility 3.1.5 Fcode probe scsi-all ok probe-scsi-all 3.1.5.3 Verifying Correct Installation Stop-A show-devs ok show-devs 3.1.5.4 Adapter-SpeciﬁcSettings select select – ok select .properties – show-children show-children ok show-children 3.1.5.5 Interrupt Coalescing ok show-interrupt-coalescing ok 100 8 set-interrupt-coalescing 3.1.5.6 Set Fibre Channel Link Speed ok show-link-speed set-link-speed ok a set-link-speed 3.1.5.7 Persistent Device Naming ok show-disks ok select /pci@1f,0/pci@1/IntraServer,fc@2 set-persistent ok 0 0 set-persistent 3.2 Troubleshooting Solaris Software Requirements 4.1Device Driver Software Requirements 4.2 Verifying the Installation 4.2.1 nonvolatileMethod 1 – Using the show-devs Command 4.2.2 Method 2 - Using the probe-scsi-all Command 4.3 itmpt Device Driver 4.3.1 Installing the itmpt Sun SPARC Solaris Driver Floppy Disk Install – volcheck pkgadd Example: pkgadd -dfloppy/floppy0 Figure 4.1 pkgadd Procedure Figure 4.2 Completing Floppy Disk Installation Distribution File Install – uncompress itmpt_install.tar.Z tar -xvfitmpt_install.tar cd install Page Page ok boot net /sbin/itmptinst 4.3.1.3 Troubleshooting the itmpt Device Driver Error Messages Error Messages (Cont.) Page Appendix A Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Conﬁguration CPU Crosspoint Switched (FC-XS) FC-1 FC-2 FC-3 FC-4 FCC Host Host Adapter IPI ISA Kbyte Operating System Operation Ordered Set Originator Parity Checking Responder RISC Core ROM SAN SCAM System BIOS TID ULP VCCI Virtual Memory Page Index Page Customer Feedback Reader’s Comments Page http://www.lsilogic.com/contacts/na_salesofﬁces.html