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GigabitEthernet ™ FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide Sun Microsystems, Inc. 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 USA 650 960-1300 Fax 650 969-9131 Part No. 806-2385-10 March 2000, Revision A Send comments about this document to: docfeedback@sun.com...
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Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, AnswerBook2, docs.sun.com, SunFastEthernet, Ultra, Sun Enterprise, StorEdge, SunSwitch, SunVTS, and Solaris sont des marques de fabrique ou des marques déposées, ou marques de service, de Sun Microsystems, Inc. aux Etats-Unis et dans d’autres pays. Toutes les marques SPARC sont utilisées sous licence et sont des marques de fabrique ou des marques déposées de SPARC International, Inc.
FCC radio frequency emission limits. Networking connections can be made using unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cables. Modifications: Any modifications made to this device that are not approved by Sun Microsystems, Inc. may void the authority granted to the user by the FCC to operate this equipment.
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ICES-003 Class B Notice - Avis NMB-003, Classe B This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
Declaration of Conformity Compliance ID: Everest Product Name: Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter (X2069A) This product has been tested and complies with the following rules and requirements. European Union—EC This equipment complies with the following requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC:...
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Contents Regulatory Compliance Statements iii Declaration of Conformity v Preface xv Product Overview 1 Product Features 1 PCI Adapter 2 GigabitEthernet 2 FC-AL 2 Diagnostic Support 2 Hardware and Software Requirements 3 Known Incompatibilities 3 Installing the Adapter 5 Preparing for the Installation 5 Tools and Equipment Needed 5 To Verify the Software Environment 6 Known Incompatibilities With Noncompliant Network Equipment 7...
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Defining the Current Status 29 Flow Control Parameters 30 Interpacket Gap Parameters 30 Defining an Additional Delay Before Transmitting a Packet Using lance_mode and ipg0 31 Operational Mode Parameters 32 viii Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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To Specify the Device Instance for the ndd Utility 34 Setting Parameters Using the ge.conf File 37 To Set Driver Parameters Using a ge.conf File 38 Specifications 41 Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Connectors 41 Fibre Channel Interface Specifications 42 Performance Specifications 42 Power Requirements...
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Checking the StorEdge A5000 Array Interface Board Firmware Level 9 FIGURE 2-1 Removing the Dust Covers 11 FIGURE 2-2 Connecting a Cable to the FC-AL Connector 11 FIGURE 2-3 Connecting a Cable to the GigabitEthernet Connector 12 FIGURE 2-4 Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Backplate 41 FIGURE A-1...
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Tables Supported Software and Hardware 3 TABLE 1-1 Required Software Packages 6 TABLE 2-1 prtdiag -v Command Output 18 TABLE 3-1 ge Driver Parameter, Status, and Descriptions 28 TABLE 4-1 Read-Only Parameters Defining the Current Status 29 TABLE 4-2 Read-Write Flow Control Parameters Values and Descriptions 30 TABLE 4-3 Read-Write Interpacket Gap Parameter Values and Descriptions 30 TABLE 4-4...
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Preface The Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide provides installation instructions for the Sun™ GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter. This manual also describes how to configure the driver software. These instructions are designed for experienced enterprise system administrators. How This Book Is Organized This document is organized into the following chapters and appendices.
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These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this. Command-line variable; replace To delete a file, type rm filename. with a real name or value Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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Shell Prompts Shell Prompts TABLE P-2 Shell Prompt C shell machine_name% C shell superuser machine_name# Bourne shell and Korn shell Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser Related Documentation Related Documentation TABLE P-3 Application Title PCI adapter installation Your system installation or service manual Storage device installation Your storage device installation or service manual GigabitEthernet driver configuration...
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We are interested in improving our documentation and welcome your comments and suggestions. You can email your comments to us at: docfeedback@sun.com Please include the part number (806-2385-10) of your document in the subject line of your email. xviii Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
“Known Incompatibilities” on page 3 Product Features The Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter incorporates the Sun GigabitEthernet technology that transfers data at a rate of one gigabit per second— 10 times the rate of a SunFastEthernet™ adapter. The adapter also contains a Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) connector, which offers high bandwidth, increased distance, and additional connectivity from host to peripherals.
Supports FC-AL private loop disk attach peripherals 64-bit/66-MHz PCI support No more than one PCI bus interrupt per SCSI I/O operation Diagnostic Support User executable self-test using the OpenBoot PROM SunVTS™ diagnostic tool Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
Hardware and Software Requirements Before using the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter, make sure your system meets the following hardware and software requirements listed in . Check the sun.com website for up-to-date requirements. TABLE 1-1 Supported Software and Hardware TABLE 1-1...
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C H A P T E R Installing the Adapter This chapter describes how to install the adapter in your system and how to verify that it has been installed correctly. This chapter contains the following sections: “Preparing for the Installation” on page 5 “Installing the Adapter Into the System”...
Solaris Supplement CD. The software package names may change in future Solaris releases. 3. Install the required software patches, if any. Go to the http://sunsolve.sun.com website and search the patch database for any required patches. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
Known Incompatibilities With Noncompliant Network Equipment You may experience interoperability issues when using the adapter with the SunSwitch switch, the Alteon ACE 110 switch, or other pre- or non-IEEE 802.3z standard compliant network equipment. If you experience difficulties with noncompliant equipment, set the adapter and switch autonegotiation properties to off and try to manually configure the interface.
2. Set the adv_1000autoneg_cap parameter to 0. Note – See Chapter 4 for the default values of these parameters and for instructions on how to set these parameters. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
If the StorEdge A5000 array firmware level is less than 1.09, you must upgrade the firmware using an SBus-based host system before you can connect the array to the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter. Visit the sunsolve.sun.com website to download the latest firmware patch.
Note – The Ultra 10 system contains 32-bit, 33-MHz PCI slots that are shorter in length than the adapter’s 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI connector. Because of this size difference, the adapter’s connector will extend beyond the Ultra 10 PCI slot. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
8. Applying even pressure at both corners of the adapter, push the PCI adapter until it is firmly seated in the slot. Caution – Do not use excessive force when installing the adapter into the PCI slot. You may damage the adapter’s PCI connector. If the adapter does not seat properly when you apply even pressure, remove the adapter and carefully reinstall it again.
FIGURE 2-4 To Verify the Installation After you have installed the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter, but before you boot your system, perform the following tasks to verify the installation. Refer to the Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals manual or your Solaris documentation for more information about OpenBoot PROM commands.
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3. List the network devices on your system. Use the show-nets command to list the system devices. You should see the full path name of the network devices, similar to the Ultra 30 system example below. In this example, the network@4 device is the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter and the network@1,1 is the onboard Ethernet device.
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Note – If you are going to set the local-mac-address property, note the local-mac-address of your device at this time. See “Setting the local-mac-address Property” on page 16 for more information. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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6. Make sure that the adapter recognizes the peripheral devices. Use the show-devs command to locate the host adapter directory and the show-children command to display the FC-AL devices connected to your adapter. ok show-devs /SUNW,UltraSPARC-II@0,0 /counter-timer@1f,1c00 /pci@1f,2000 /pci@1f,4000 /virtual-memory /memory@0,60000000 /aliases /options...
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Note – Setting the local-mac-address property is required only if you will be booting from the network. The network interface of the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter has been assigned a unique Media Access Control (MAC) address, which represents the 48-bit Ethernet address for that interface. The OpenBoot firmware reports this MAC address via the local-mac-address property in the device nodes corresponding to the network interface.
C H A P T E R Configuring the Network Host Files This chapter describes how to configure the system host files to use the Sun GigabitEthernet driver software. This chapter contains the following sections: “Displaying the System Configuration Information” on page 17 “Configuring the Network Host Files”...
To Display the System Configuration Information Use the prtdiag -v command to list the configuration of the host system. In the example below, a Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter ) is installed in the 66-MHz PCI slot of an Ultra 30 system.
Configuring the Network Host Files After installing the GigabitEthernet driver software and the adapter, you must create a hostname.genumber file for the adapter’s Ethernet interface. You must also create both an IP address and a host name for its Ethernet interface in the /etc/hosts file. To Configure the Network Host Files 1.
You can find the GigabitEthernet software packages on the Solaris Supplement CD. Note – Refer to the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide and the System Administration Guide for more information about installing and administering diskless client systems. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
To Set Up a Diskless Client on a GigabitEthernet Network 1. Locate the root directory of the diskless client on the host server. The root directory of diskless client system is commonly installed in the host server’s /export/root/client_name directory, where client_name is the diskless client’s host name.
Note – If you want to install the client system over a network that is not part of the same subnet, you must also create a boot server. The Solaris Advanced Installation Guide describes how to create a boot server. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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2. Find the root directory of the client system. The client system’s root directory can be found in the install server’s /etc/bootparams file. Use the grep command to search this file for the root directory. # grep client_name /etc/bootparams client_name root=server_name:/netinstall/Solaris_2.7/Tools/Boot install=server_name:/netinstall boottype=:in rootopts=:rsize=32768 In the example above, the root directory for the Solaris 7 client is /netinstall.
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The show-nets command lists the system devices. You should see the full path name of the network device, similar to the Ultra 30 example below. In this example, the network@4 device is the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter. ok show-nets...
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10. After installing the Solaris operating environment, you will need to install the GigabitEthernet software on the client system. The software installed in Step 4 was required to boot the client system over the GigabitEthernet interface. You now need to install the software in order for the operating system to use the client’s GigabitEthernet interfaces in normal operation.
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ID). You can manually configure the ge device driver parameters to customize each Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter device in your system. This section provides an overview of the capabilities of the GigabitEthernet ASIC used in the adapter, lists the available ge device driver parameters, and describes how you can...
Device instance instance Read and write Enable additional delay before transmitting a packet lance_mode Read and write Additional delay before transmitting a packet ipg0 Read and write Operational mode parameter adv_1000autoneg_cap Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
By default, the driver sets ipg1 to 8-byte time and ipg2 to 4-byte time, which are the standard values. (Byte time is the time it takes to transmit one byte on the link, with a link speed of 1000 Mbps.) Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
If your network has systems that use longer IPG (the sum of ipg1 and ipg2), and if those machines seem to be slow in accessing the network, increase the values of ipg1 and ipg2 to match the longer IPGs of other machines. Defining an Additional Delay Before Transmitting a Packet Using lance_mode and ipg0 The GEM ASIC supports a programmable mode called lance_mode.
# grep ge /etc/path_to_inst "/pci@1f,2000/pci@1/network@4" 2 "ge" "/pci@1f,2000/pci@1/network@4" 1 "ge" "/pci@1f,2000/pci@1/network@4" 0 "ge" In the example above, the three GigabitEthernet instances are from the installed adapters. The instance numbers are in bold italics. Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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2. Use the instance number to select the device. # ndd -set /dev/ge instance instance# The device remains selected until you change the selection. Noninteractive and Interactive Modes You can use the ndd utility in two modes: Noninteractive Interactive In noninteractive mode, you invoke the utility to execute a specific command. Once the command is executed, you exit the utility.
Setting the Autonegotiation Mode By default, autonegotiation is set to on. This means that the adapter will communicate with its link partner to determine a compatible network speed, duplex mode, and flow control capability. To Disable Autonegotiation Mode If your network equipment does not support autonegotiation, or if you want to specify your network speed, you can set autonegotiation to off on the ge device.
In the second line in the previous example: Name = pci108e,2bad Parent = /pci@6,2000 Unit-address = 4 In the third line in the previous example: Name = pci108e,2bad Parent = /pci@4,2000 Unit-address = 4 Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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2. Set the parameters for the above devices in the kernel/drv/ge.conf file. In the example below, the ipg1 and the ipg2 parameters are set for the three GigabitEthernet devices. name="pci108e,2bad" parent="/pci@4,4000" unit-address="4" ipg1=20 ipg2=10; name="pci108e,2bad" parent="/pci@6,2000" unit-address="4" ipg1=20 ipg2=10; name="pci108e,2bad" parent="/pci@4,2000" unit-address="4" ipg1=20 ipg2=10; 3.
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Specifications This appendix displays the connectors and lists the following specifications for the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter: “Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Connectors” on page 41 “Fibre Channel Interface Specifications” on page 42 “Performance Specifications” on page 42 “Power Requirements” on page 43 “Physical Dimensions”...
Capacitance per PCI signal line 10 pF, except for CLK between 5 to 12 pF and IDSEL 8pF FC-AL lnterface 1 Gbit optical (1.0625 Gbits/sec) 1 Gbit/sec, 850 nm 1000 Mbps Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
A P P E N D I X Using the SunVTS Diagnostic Software This appendix contains an overview of the SunVTS diagnostic application and instructions for testing the adapter using the onboard FCode selftest. This appendix contains the following sections: “SunVTS Diagnostic Software”...
SunVTS User’s Guide Describes the SunVTS environment SunVTS Test Reference Manual Describes each SunVTS test; provides various test options and command-line arguments SunVTS Quick Reference Provides an overview of the user interface Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
Self-Test The following tests are available to help identify problems with the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter if the system does not boot. You can invoke the FCode self-test diagnostics by using the OpenBoot user interface test or test-all commands. If you encounter an error while running diagnostics, appropriate messages will be displayed.
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6. After testing the adapter, type the following to return the OpenBoot PROM to standard operating mode. ok setenv diag-switch? false 7. Set the auto-boot? configuration parameter to true. ok setenv auto-boot? true Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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8. Reset and reboot the system. ok reset-all Appendix B Using the SunVTS Diagnostic Software...
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Index FC-AL, cabling, 11 GigabitEthernet, cabling, 12 adapter illustrated, 41 connectors, illustrated, 41 illustrated, 1 installation, 5 to 16 product features, 2 properties, displaying, 14 declaration of conformity, v testing diagnostics, 47 to 51 OpenBoot PROM self-test, 49 diskless client systems, installing ge driver, 20 SunVTS diagnostics, 48 vendor ID, 27 documentation...
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12 local-mac-address? property, setting, 16 network devices, displaying, 13 incompatibilities with noncompliant equipment, 7 prompt, displaying, 12 installation show-children command, 15 adapter, 10 to 12 show-devs command, 15 Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000...
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