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FibreQuik Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter For AIX User Guide Cambex Corporation 115 Flanders Road. Westborough, MA 01581 Customer support support@cambex.
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FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................................... 1 Description .................................................................
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Description The Cambex FibreQuik ™ Fibre Channel host bus adapters provide attachment of Fibre Channel devices to PCI or Micro Channel based servers.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de AIX Driver Installation Command line driver installation The name and revision level of a driver may be exam ined by issuing the command (as root): installp -ld <device> where <device> is replaced by /dev/fd0 for the floppy drive, /mnt/AIX/PC1000.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de where <device> is as described above. example: installp -acd /dev/cd0 all After installing the driver, see the README file for additional informatio.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de AIX Configuration During power-up initialization, AIX will find and configure the new adapter(s) and any supported devices using the driver's configuration method. Devices are assigned a SCSI ID as they are discovered starting with 0.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Persistent Bindings Persistent Bindings is the term used to indicate the mapping of SCSI ID to FC Worldwide Name (W WN). By keeping a persistent binding, the loop ID or port ID of a device may change and the device will still be properly addressed.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Login after LIP (yes) Full duplex in loop mode (no) Attributes used to limit data rate or resources used Execution throttle (256 simultaneous I/O) IOCB allocation (256) DMA window size (PCI only, 64MB) Max frame size (1024) or 512, 2048.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de example, if errpt identifies a loose cable on device cda1, lsdev will give an address similar to: cda1 Available 00-02-01-3,0 Cambex SCSI ... Which indicates that the adapter is in location 00-02, and the drive is at SCSI ID 3, LUN 0.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de lscfg -vl scsi4 should print more information for a card: DEVICE LOCATION DESCRIPTION scsi4 20-58 Cambex ... Manufacturer................CAMBEX Machine Type and Model......PC1000F ROS Level and ID.........
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de • Full_duplex enables higher performance in loop mode where all connected devices support it. P2P is inherently full duplex. • Fibre Channel topology is normally found automatically but may be forced to loop_only or P2P_only with this attribute.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Topology: NL AL_PA: 0xef Adapter_ID: 0 or for fabric: Topology: F Port_name: 0x00011000 Adapter_ID: 255 Make sure that the id value doesn't conflict with any other host or device on the same fibre channel loop.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Appendix A Map of SCSI ID to arbitrated loop physical address (ALPA). ID ALPA ID ALPA ID ALPA ID ALPA 0 EF 1 E8 2 E4 3 E2 4 E1 5 E0 6 DC 7 DA 8 D9 9 D6 10.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de PC2000 LED Meanings Top LED – Transceiver hardware is detecting a signal. Middle LED – Firmware is being synchronized.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Declaration of conformity We Cambex Corporation of Waltham , Massachusetts, USA, declare under our sole responsibility, that the pr oducts PC-1000, PC-100.
FibreQuik - Fibre Channel Adapter User Gui de Safety Notices Safety Notice Class 1 Laser Product Versions of this product supplied wi th an optical transceiver m eet the safety requirements of a cl ass 1 laser as specified by the US Food and Drug Administ ration Center of Drug and Radi ological Health (CDR H) 21 CFR 1040.
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