Diagnostic Support For The Red Hat/Suse Os - Sun Microsystems StorageTek SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z Installation Manual

3. For Red Hat Linux users, edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and add the
following entries, if they are not present:
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4. For SUSE Linux users, edit the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and modify the
INITRD_MODULES directive as shown in the following example.
In this example, note that you must add the first module, qla2xxx_conf (for
SANsurfer), followed by the qla2xxx module. The qla2xxx_conf module is for
use only with SANsurfer while the qla2xxx module is a common module.
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INITRD_MODULES=".... qla2xxx_conf qla2xxx"
...
5. Change to the /boot directory.
6. Back up the current RAMDISK image.
# cp -f initrd-2.6.kernel-version.img initrd-2.6.kernel-version.img.bak
7. Build the RAMDISK image with the mkinitrd -f command.
Red Hat: # mkinitrd -f initrd-2.6.kernel-version.img kernel-version
SUSE: # /sbin/mk_initrd
8. Reboot the system to load the RAMDISK image with the driver.

Diagnostic Support for the Red Hat/SUSE OS

Diagnostic support for the HBA is available through the SANsurfer PRO graphical
user interface (GUI) utility or the SANsurfer command-line interface (CLI) utility.
These utilities support the following functions:
Connectivity verification
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BIOS, FCode, EFI, and firmware version information
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Link status, including topology, data rate, and statistics
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Vital product data (VPD) information
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Attached devices list
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Option ROM, NVRAM update utilities
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Loopback test
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Read/Write Buffer test
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alias scsi_hostadapter1 qla2xxx_conf (for use only with SANsurfer)
alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx