Driver Parameters; System Parameters - Qlogic QLA200 HBA User Manual

5 – NetWare Driver Installation

Driver Parameters

5.5
Driver Parameters
The NetWare driver has two types of optional parameters:
System parameters (specified when the driver is loaded)
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NVRAM parameters (stored in the HBA's NVRAM)
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5.5.1

System Parameters

The optional system parameters are specified on the driver load line. There are two
types of system parameters:
Global. The parameter applies to all driver instances; the value specified in the
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first instance is used globally for all instances.
Instance. The parameter applies only to the individual driver instance specified
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by the load line.
The system parameters are described in
Parameter
SLOT = n
/GANXT
/ALLPATHS
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Table 5-1. QL2300.HAM Driver Parameters
Type
Instance
/LUNS Instance
Instance
Global
table 5-1.
Description
This parameters tells NetWare the PCI slot number (n) of
the HBA on which to load this driver instance.
SLOT=n parameter example:
LOAD QL2300.HAM SLOT=3
This parameter tells NetWare to scan for all LUNs when
this driver is loaded. Otherwise, NetWare scans only for
LUN zero devices. The scanned LUN number range is 0
to (n –1), where n is specified by the /MAXLUNS=n option.
/LUNS parameter example:
LOAD QL2300.HAM SLOT=3 /LUNS
This parameter queries the fabric name server; it is used
instead of a single GNNFT parameter. /GANXT is used
for compatibility with name servers that do not support
GNNFT.
/GANXT parameter example:
LOAD QL2300.HAM SLOT=3 /LUNS /GANXT
This parameter disables failover and reports to NetWare
all devices on all HBA paths, which allows upper layer
modules to do failover across a Netware server's multiple
HBAs.
/ALLPATHS parameter example:
LOAD QL2300.HAM SLOT=3 /LUNS /ALLPATHS
(see section 5.5.1)
(see section 5.5.2)
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