Hardware

Hi,

This question is basically a revisit of a problem I posted a couple of months ago, and let fall by the wayside.

We have a Sun Fire V880 (Solaris 8 0202) trying to connect to an HP XP512 using two Sun-branded FC-AL Fiber network cards (p/n X6799A). The cards are PCI Qlogic QLA2200F single-port fibre cards.The connections go through a Brocade Silkworm 2800 switch. The Brocade switch sees the cards, recognizes the WWN on each.

Question: Is the regular Sun driver /kernel/drv/qlc sufficient to support these cards? Or do we have to use the Qlogic -supplied driver /kernel/drv/qla2200? Any other packages have to be installed? We have the correct settings in the XP512 - verified by the HP engineer.

We've modified /kernel/drv/sd.conf so that all LUN/Target combinations are covered, and performed the appropriate reconfiguration reboots when needed.

Nothing appears to work. The cards are recognized when the system boots, but don't appear to get attached to the driver. Our Sun engineer states that this configuration work fine when talking to a Hitachi 9960 box at a couple of customers sites. This, apparently, is the same box as the XP512, with different microcode.

Any ideas? I've been pulling my hair out for a long time with this issue... It's tricky trying to balance what engineers from both sides say - the HP engineers has been quite helpful with suggestions, but I think I've hit a brick wall at this point.

Thanks

Scotty