Changing Driver Parameters For Hp Storageworks Xp Systems; Changing Parameters With A Script; Changing Parameters Manually - HP StorageWorks A6826A Installation Manual

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Changing Driver Parameters for HP StorageWorks XP Systems

If you are using the failover functionality built into the qla2x00 driver for HP XP

storage arrays, you must change certain driver parameters. To do so, you can

either run a script or manually make the changes.

1. Enter the following command:

2. Choose option 6.

3. Enter Y when prompted if you want to enable failover functionality

4. Reboot or choose option 5 to reload the driver.

Note:

is a process or file system using a device that is attached to the A6826A adapter.

1. Edit the /etc/hp_qla2x00.conf file using a text editor.

2. Change the failover = 0 line to failover = 1.

3. Change the port_down_retry_count = xx line to

4. Change the qdepth=xx line to qdepth=4.

5. Reload the driver or reboot. To do so, enter the following commands to

Note:

is a process or file system using a device that is attached to the A6826A adapter.

A6826A PCI-X Host Bus Adapter for Linux 64-bit Systems Installation Guide

# hp_fccfg.sh

You may not be able to unload the qla2200 and/or qla2300 modules if there

port_down_retry_count = 16.

unload and reload the driver:

modprobe –r

/etc/init.d/qla2300 start

You may not be able to unload the qla2200 and/or qla2300 modules if there

Installing the Linux Driver

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