QLogic Fibre Channel Expansion Card for IBM eServer BladeCenter Storport 32-Bit Device Driver for Windows 2003 Version 9.1.2.16 (C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1999, 2005. All rights reserved. US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication, or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the general information in "Notices and trademarks" in this document. _______________ 1.0 Overview _______________ This README describes current driver version for the QLogic Fibre Channel Expansion Cards and procedure for updating the driver on the server blade. 1.2 Limitations: -When using the 4Gb expansion card with an OPM module, the maximum supported speed is 2Gb -When using the 4Gb expansion card within the BladeCenter T Chassis, the maximum supported internal speed is 2Gb -When using the 4Gb expansion card in the HS40 the card must be installed in the slot closest to the processors 1.3 Level recommendation and prerequisites for the update: This driver is an update release for Windows 2003 support See corresponding Change History document for additional information. 1.4 Dependencies: Consult with your storage vendor to determine the appropriate failover software to use with this driver. This driver works with 32-bit versions of Windows 2003 This driver contains the default buschange parameter setting required for use with RDAC failover on DS4xxx devices This Driver is used in conjuction with SANsurfer version 2.0.30b52 or higher. Products supported: QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (IBM Option P/N 26R0884) QLogic 4Gb SFF Fibre Channel Expansion Card (IBM Option P/N 26R0890) IBM eServer BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card (IBM Option P/N 13N2203) IBM eServer BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card (IBM Option P/N 48P7061) IBM eServer BladeCenter SFF Fibre Channel Expansion Card (IBM Option P/N 26K4841) Blades supported: HS20 Machine Type 8678, 8832, 8843 HS40 Machine Type 8839 LS20 Machine Type 8850 _________________________________________ 2.0 Installation and Setup Instructions _________________________________________ This section is divided into the following four sections. 3.1 Initial OS installation with the Fibre Channel Expansion Card as Boot 3.2 Adding the Fibre Channel Expansion Card Driver to the Existing OS 3.3 Updating the existing Fibre Channel Expansion Card Driver 3.4 Removing the Fibre Channel Expansion Card Driver ====================================================================== 2.1. Initial Windows 2003 installation with the Fibre Channel Expansion Card as Boot. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact IBM Support for supported configurations for configuring the Fibre Channel Expansion Card as the boot device. This procedure requires the system to be equipped with a floppy drive. Follow the procedure below to initially install Windows on the boot disk attached to the Fibre Channel Adapter: 1. Start Windows installation procedure using the Setup CD. 2. Press F6 if you see the message Press F6 if you want to install a third party SCSI or RAID Driver ... After all the standard devices have been loaded, press S to Specify Additional Device. 3. Insert the QLogic software diskette and press ENTER. 4. Select the QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter and press ENTER. (For Windows 2003 Press S=Use the driver on floppy. Screen display "Setup will load support for the following mass storage device (s). Qlogic Fibre Channel Adapter. Press Enter=Continue." Press Enter. 5. Continue with standard installation procedure. ====================================================================== 2.2 Adding the Fibre Channel Expansion Card Drivers to an Existing Windows 2003 System. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To install the Windows 2003 driver files for the Fibre Channel Expansion card you will need either a floppy diskette or CD containing the driver files. You can get the latest driver information and download the latest driver files from http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ Perform the following steps to add the driver to the existing Windows 2003 system on a BladeCenter blade server running a 32-bit version of Windows. 1. Install the Fibre Channel Expansion Card to a HS20/HS40/LS20 server blade per directions provided in Fibre Channel Expansion Card Installation and User's Guide publication. 2. Power on BladeCenter or install the blade server (hot pluggable). Refer to blade server User's Guide documentation. 3. To associate the CD-ROM or diskette drive with the blade server, press the CD/diskette/USB select button on the blade server. For the location of the CD/diskette/USB button, see the illustration in the BladeCenter User's Guide. The LED on the button flashes while the request is being processed, then is steady when the ownership of the CD-ROM or diskette drive is transferred to the blade server. 4. To associate the keyboard port, mouse port, and video port with the blade server, press the keyboard/mouse/video select button. The LED on this button flashes while the request is processed, then is steady when the ownership of the keyboard, mouse, and video is transferred to the blade server. 5. When your blade server comes up, Windows will detect the newly installed device by displaying the Found New Hardware with Fibre Channel Adapter message and start the Found New Hardware wizard program to start the process of installing a device driver for the newly installed device. 6. Insert the QLogic Software Diskette into drive A: 7. Select Install the software automatically (Recommended). Click Next. 8. Click Finish on the Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard. 9. If you are prompted with the message: System Settings Change. Windows has finished installing a new devices. The software that supports your device requires that you restart your computer. You must restart your computer before the new settings will take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now? Click Yes to restart the computer right away. NOTE ---- * If when the system comes up and Windows 2003 installs the driver for the newly added Qlogic Adapter automatically without prompting you for a selection, i.e. Windows 2003 already installs inbox driver, then go to "Updating the Existing Driver" section below. ====================================================================== 2.3 Updating the Existing Fibre Channel Expansion Card Driver ------------------------------------------------------------ To update the Windows driver files for the Fibre Channel Expansion card you will need either a floppy diskette or CD containing the driver files. You can get information and download the latest driver files from http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/. To update the Fibre Channel Expansion Card driver on an installed Windows system, follow this procedure: 1. Power on BladeCenter or install the blade server (hot pluggable). Refer to the blade server User's Guide documentation. 2. To associate the CD-ROM or diskette drive with the blade server, press the CD/diskette/USB select button on the blade server. For the location of the CD/diskette/USB button, see the illustration in the BladeCenter User's Guide. The LED on the button flashes while the request is being processed, then is steady when the ownership of the CD-ROM or diskette drive is transferred to the blade server. 3. To associate the keyboard port, mouse port, and video port with the blade server, press the keyboard/mouse/video select button. The LED on this button flashes while the request is processed, then is steady when the ownership of the keyboard, mouse, and video is transferred to the blade server. 4. Start the Device Manager by clicking Start, clicking Control Panel, clicking System applet, clicking Hardware tab, and clicking the Device Manager button. 5. Use scroll bar to scroll down the list of hardware types, double click the SCSI and RAID controllers. 6. Select Fibre Channel Adapter from the devices list and then click Properties. 7. Click the Driver tab, and then click Update Driver to start the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard. Click Next. 8. Select Install from a list or specific location(Advanced). click Next. 9. Select Don't search I will choose the driver to install. Click Next. 10. If you have a QLogic Software Diskette then insert into drive A: and click Have Disk. 11. On the Copy manfacturer's files from, type in A:\ or choose the folder where driver files are located. and click OK. 12. When the Hardware Update Wizard/Select a Device Driver dialog box displays, click Next. 13. When the Hardware Installation dialog box displays, select Continue Anyway. 14. Click Finish on the Hardware Update Wizard/Completing the Hardware Update Wizard. 15. You may be prompted with the following message: "Your hardware settings have changed. You must restart your computer for these changes to take effect." "Do you want to restart your computer now? " 16. Click Yes to restart the HS20/HS40/LS20 blade server. ====================================================================== 2.4 Removing the Fibre Channel Expansion Card ---------------------------------------------- Refer to the Fibre Channel Expansion Card Installation and User's Guide for directions on how to remove the BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card. NOTE ---- * You do not normally have to use the Device Manager or the Hardware wizard to uninstall a Plug and Play device. After you have removed the device from your computer, and you have restarted your computer, Windows will recognize that it has been removed. ====================================================================== _______________________________ 3.0 Configuration Information _______________________________ Detailed information on configuring the Fibre Channel Expansion Card can be found in the Fibre Channel Expansion Card Installation Guide on the IBM Website. 3.1. Scsiport Registry Parameters --------------------------------- QLogic has updated the following Windows Scsiport driver registry parameters to tailor to its fibre channel operations * MaximumSGList Windows includes enhanced scatter/gather list support for doing very large SCSI I/O transfers. Windows supports up to 256 scatter/gather segments of 4096 bytes each, allowing transfers up to 1048576 bytes. If you wish to alter this value, please use the following procedure: 1. Click on "Start", select "Run", and open the REGEDT32 program. 2. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and follow the tree structure down to the QLogic driver as follows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services Ql2300 Parameters Device 3. Double click on MaximumSGList:REG_DWORD:0xFF 4. Enter a value from 16 to 255 (0x10 hex to 0xFF). A value of 255 (0xFF) enables the maximum 1 MByte transfer size. Setting a value higher than 255 results with the default of 64K transfers. The default value is 255 (0xFF). 5. Click OK. 6. Exit the Registry Editor, then shutdown and reboot the system. * NumberOfRequests Windows supports the "NumberOfRequests" registry parameter to specify the maximum number of outstanding requests per adapter. When the QLogic driver is installed, the registry will be automatically updated with this parameter set to a value of 150 (0x96). WARNING: DO NOT increase this parameter above 150. Doing so can result in a system failure. 3.2. Driver Registry Parameters -------------------------------- * regfdmi Enable FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface) by setting the regfdmi parameter to 1. By default FDMI is disabled. Please use the following procedure to change the regfdmi parameter: 1. Click on "Start", select "Run", and open the REGEDT32 program. 2. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and follow the tree structure down to the QLogic driver as follows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services Ql2300 Parameters Device 3. Double click on DriverParameters:REG_SZ:regfdmi=0 4. If the string "regfdmi=" does not exist, append to end of string ;regfdmi=0 5. If the string "regfdmi=0" exists, change the value from 0 to 1. 6. Click OK. 7. Exit the Registry Editor, then shutdown and reboot the system. 3.3 Additional Notes ------------------- * To ensure the driver function properly, the driver changes some of the system related registry entries such as the disk timeout value of the system disk driver during driver installation through the use of the QL2X00.INF file. Those values are not being restored upon driver removal. 3.4 Known Issues ------------------- - When using FDMI, the SANsurfer GUI reports the daughtercard speed to be 10Gbs _____________________ 4.0 Unattended Mode _____________________ The driver supports the Unattended Mode. Please follow the instructions provided by Microsoft to create necessary files and prepare systems for unattended installation. ________________________________________ 5.0 WEB Sites and Support Phone Number ________________________________________ You can download new and updated files for BladeCenter Fibre Channel products from http://www.ibm.com/support/. For a list of supported operating systems on legacy (non-shipping) controllers, see http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/. You can receive hardware service through IBM Services or through your IBM reseller, if your reseller is authorized by IBM to provide warranty service. See http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/ for support telephone numbers, or in the U.S. and Canada, call 1-800-IBM-SERV (1-800-426-7378). In the U.S. and Canada, hardware service and support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the U.K., these services are available Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ____________________________ 6.0 Notices and Trademarks ____________________________ The following terms are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both: IBM BladeCenter eServer UNIX is a registered of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. 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