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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
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 |
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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