Re: qla2300 at only 1 GBit on kernel 2.6.5

Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-05-05T17:46:58Z

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:27:10AM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
>
> How are you verifying that the 2.4 driver is coming-up in 2Gig rather
> than 1gig? Do you have an analyzer running between the HBA and
> storage device?

The storage device has a gui telling me current speed. CurSynClk=2 GHz
for the redhat kernel, 1 GHz for the 2.6.5 and 2.6.6-rc3 kernels.

> Or, as you mentioned later in the email when testing
> the 8.x driver, did you force 2gig at the RAID box and reload the
> 2.4 driver?

Initially I was running kernel 2.6.5 had the connection forced at
2Gbit from the storage device side, then I struggled for a while
trying to understand why I didn't get link. The qla2300 module said
"Cable unplugged".

Then I set the storage device to autodetect speed, rebooted, and then
it came up at 1 Gbit.

Then (with the setting still at autodetect) I rebooted to the RedHat
kernel, and it got autodetected to 2 Gbit according to the storage
device.

> Which model? Actually, looking ahead, I can see you are running an
>
> Vendor: IFT Model: A16F-G1A2 Rev: 334A
>
> Of the three FC-SATA RAID boxes that are advertised, only the
> A16F-J1210-G1 model mentions support for 'full-duplex 2Gb FC-AL'.

The data-sheet says "Two 2Gbps Fibre Host Channels; Transfer rate up to
200MB/sec for each":

http://www.infortrend.com/document/pdf/DS_ESA16FU_G_0311.pdf

>
> Hmm, could you go into the BIOS utility (ctrl-q during boot) and check
> the 'Data Rate' settings for the HBA? What is the value set to --
> auto/1gb/2gb? If it is set to auto, could you set it to 2gb and retry
> the test.

During boot it says it has no 'ROM BIOS'. Is this something I can
install?

BTW: here's the log I get with 2.6.6-rc3 when loading the qla2300 with
speed=2GHz set on the infortrend:

QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver (f8aec000)
qla2300 0000:01:05.0: Found an ISP2300, irq 145, iobase 0xf89b4000
qla2300 0000:01:05.0: Configuring PCI space...
qla2300 0000:01:05.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
qla2300 0000:01:05.0: Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2300 0000:01:05.0: Waiting for LIP to complete...
qla2300 0000:01:05.0: Cable is unplugged...
scsi2 : qla2xxx
qla2300 0000:01:05.0:
QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.00.00b11-k
QLogic QLA2300 -
ISP2300: PCI (33 MHz) @ 0000:01:05.0 hdma-, host#=2, fw=3.02.26 IPX

-jf