Hardware

Hi,

we have a 280R with a T3+ directly connected to via fiber (using an X6799A FC-HBA which is apparently a Qlogic 2200F). I need to migrate the content of the T3 to a newly installed EMC Clariiion CX300.

As a first step I tried to connect the server to the EMC FC-switch (DS-4400M) and connected the T3 to another port on the switch. The switch recognized both the server and the T3 (lights are green, config info shows up, altough the speed for the connection to the server was set to 4Gbps while I believe this card can only do 1Gbps so I changed that manualy). I've setup a zone on the switch so the server and T3 should be able to talk to eachother. However the server doesn't see the T3 anymore (format doesn't show the T3, '/etc/powermt display dev=all' says no devices found).

I assume the problem may be that the hba is controlled by the Sun QLC driver, while it should be (according to the EMC documentation) controlled by the Qlogic QLA driver. However when I install the qla driver it says there are no devices to attach to. The documentation I found from EMC and Qlogic describe what to do to make sure the QLA driver is used when installing a new hba but it doesn't say anything on what to do when the existing hba is already controlled by the QLC driver.

1. anybody any idea whether I should be able to see the T3 with the QLC driver (I'm not interested in talking to the EMC yet, just want to make sure I can reach my existing filesystem for now).
2. would removing the SUNWqlc... packages be enough to make the QLA driver see the hba? I'm a bit reluctant to remove those drivers as I don't know how to reinstall them in case everything fails. I realy need to be able to see the existing filesystem.
3. any other ideas on how to make the 280R see the T3 via the switch?

Thanks in advance,

Nico