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QLogic BIOS for QLE80xx Adapters
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Table of Contents
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3.2 Scan Fibre Channel Devices
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1. Package Contents
The following table describes the BIOS files included for updating the adapter BIOS.
Filename update.bat
FlasUtil.exe
VPD.exe
q84xxyy.bin
readme.txt
DOS batch file that calls the executable files to update the adapter BIOS.
Utility to update multi-boot code and firmware.
Description
Utility to update the adapter's Vital Product Data.
Combined binary file, which includes the binaries for the firmware, FCode, EFI, and BIOS.
Text file version of this file.
2. Supported Features
The QLE80XX adapter BIOS supports the following:
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Up to 2031 target IDs
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Up to 256 LUNs
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Point-to-point and loop configuration
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Boot capability in FC-AL and fabric topologies
3. Adapter Configuration Parameters
NOTE: The Fast!UTIL BIOS utility does not run on Sun SPARC systems. For Solaris users, refer to the FCode
Guide for information regarding adapter configuration settings.
This section provides detailed configuration information for advanced users who want to customize the configuration of the adapter and its connected devices. You cannot configure the board using Fast!UTIL.
To access Fast!UTIL, press <ALT>-<Q> or <CTRL>-<Q> during the QLE84XX board BIOS initialization (it may take a few seconds for the Fast!UTIL menu to appear). If you have more than one adapter, Fast!UTIL asks you to select the board you want to configure. After changing the settings, Fast!UTIL reboots your system to load the new parameters.
NOTE: Pressing <CTRL>-<Q> lists only the same type of QLogic adapters installed in the system.
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CAUTION! If the configuration settings are incorrect, your adapter may not function properly.
The following subsections describe the options available from the Fast!UTIL Options menu:
3.2 Scan Fibre Channel Devices
3.1 Configuration Settings
The Configuration Settings includes options described in the following subsections:
3.1.2 Selectable Boot Settings
3.1.3 Restore Default Settings
3.1.5 Advanced Adapter Settings
3.1.1 Adapter Settings
Setting
Host Adapter BIOS
Values Default Description
Enabled/Disabled Disabled Disabling this setting disables the ROM BIOS on the adapter, which frees space in upper memory. You must enable this setting if you are booting from an FC disk drive attached to the adapter. See device.
for details on specifying the boot
Frame Size
Loop Reset Delay
Adapter Hard Loop ID
Hard Loop ID
512/1024/2048 2048 This setting specifies the maximum frame length supported by the adapter.
0 - 60 seconds 5 seconds After resetting the loop, the firmware refrains from initiating any loop activity for the number of seconds specified in this setting.
Enabled/Disabled Disabled This setting forces the adapter to attempt to use the ID specified in the Hard Loop ID setting.
0 - 125 0 If the Adapter Hard Loop ID setting is enabled, the adapter attempts to use the ID specified in this setting.
Spin Up Delay
Connection Options
Enabled/Disabled Disabled When this bit is set, the BIOS waits up to two minutes to find the first drive.
0/1/2 2 This setting defines the type of connection:
0 – loop only
1 - point-to-point only
2 - loop preferred then point-to-point
NOTE: The connection option on the QLE80XX CNA is read only and is set to pointto-point.
Fibre Channel Tape Support Enabled/Disabled Enabled This setting enables FCP-2 recovery.
Data Rate 0/1/2/3 2 This setting determines the data rate:
1 - Adapter runs at 2 Gb/s.
2 - Adapter auto-negotiates and determines the data rate.
3 - Adapter runs at 4 Gb/s.
4 - Adapter runs at 8 Gb/s.
NOTE: This data rate option for the QLE80XX CNA is set to 4 Gb/sec.
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3.1.2 Selectable Boot Settings
The Selectable Boot Settings option is accessed from the Configuration Settings menu. If you enable the
Host Adapter BIOS in the Adapter Settings, this option allows you to select the boot device as shown in the following table.
Selectable Boot Settings
Enable Selectable Boot
No
Yes
Yes
Boot WWPN/LUN x
None specified
Specified
Device Boot
BIOS configures the first disk drive it finds as boot device.
BIOS configures the first disk drive it finds that is also a LUN 0 as boot device.
BIOS scans through the specified Boot WWPN/LUN list until it finds a disk drive. This is configured as boot device.
This option allows you to specify up to four WWPN/LUN as boot devices.
To enable the Selectable Boot option and insert devices into the boot device locations:
1. From the Configuration Settings menu, select Host Adapter Settings.
2. Enable the adapter BIOS, then press ESC to return to the Configuration Settings menu.
3. From the Configuration Settings menu, select Selectable Boot Settings.
4. Press ENTER to enable or disable (toggle) the Selectable Boot option. Use the down arrow key to move to the Primary location of the Selectable Boot List menu.
5. Press ENTER to see a list of accessible devices (in the Select Fibre Channel Device menu).
6. Select a drive using the arrow keys to scroll down to the device you want to put into your Selectable
Boot menu list, then press ENTER to select the requested device and load it into the Selectable Boot menu list.
7. Repeat this step to specify a secondary boot device on the QLE256x FC HBA or up to three alternate boot devices.
NOTES:
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To boot from a QLogic FC adapter in newer systems with the Phoenix and AMI multi-boot BIOS, the
System BIOS Boot menu must include the FC adapter in the correct order.
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Solaris x86 Boot from a SAN: To boot from an FC drive connected to a QLogic host FC adapter, reboot the system and enter Fast!UTIL. Enter into the Selectable Boot menu, enable selectable boot and insert the BOOT drive in the Primary location of the Selectable Boot menu prior to performing the OS
(Solaris X86) installation.
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For these BOOT from SAN configurations, the Solaris x86 QLA driver supports booting from the Primary location only. The driver will not attempt to boot from the Alternate 1, Alternate 2, and Alternate 3 entries.
3.1.3 Restore Default Settings
The Restore Defaults option from the Configuration Settings menu restores the adapter default settings.
3.1.4 Raw NVRAM Data
This option displays the adapter’s NVRAM contents in hexadecimal format. This Read-only data is for QLogic troubleshooting. Users cannot modify it.
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3.1.5 Advanced Adapter Settings
From the Configuration Settings menu in Fast!UTIL, select Advanced Adapter Settings. The following paragraphs describe the default settings for the 4Gb FC HBA or QLE80XX CNA.
Advanced Adapter Settings
Setting
Execution Throttle
LUNs per Target
Enable LIP Reset
Enable LIP Full Login
Enable Target Reset
Login Retry Count
Port Down Retry Count
Link Down Timeout
Operation Mode
Values
1-65535
Default
16
Description
This setting specifies the maximum number of commands executing on any one target port. After reaching a target port’s execution throttle, it stops issuing new commands until one of the current commands finishes executing.
0/8/16/32/64/128/256
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
0 - 255
0 - 255 seconds
0 - 255 seconds
0/5/6
128
No
This setting specifies the number of LUNs supported per target if the target does not support "Report LUN" command. Multiple LUN support typically applies to a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) boxes that use LUNs to map drives.
This setting determines the type of loop initialization process (LIP) reset used when the operating system initiates a bus reset routine. When this option is set to yes, the driver initiates a global LIP reset to reset the target devices. When this option is set to no, the driver initiates a global LIP reset with full login.
Yes
Yes
This setting instructs the ISP chip to re-login to all ports after any LIP.
This setting enables the drivers to issue a Target Reset command to all devices on the loop when a SCSI Bus Reset command is issued.
This setting specifies the number of times the software tries to log in to a device.
8
30 seconds This setting specifies the number of seconds the software waits to retry a command to a port returning port down status.
30 seconds This setting specifies the number of seconds the software waits for a link down to come up.
0 This setting specifies the reduced interrupt operation (RIO) modes, if supported by the software driver. The RIO modes allow posting multiple command completions in a single interrupt. This option supports the following modes:
0 - Interrupt for every I/O completion
5 - Interrupt when Interrupt Delay Timer expires
6 - Interrupt when Interrupt Delay Timer expires or no active I/Os
Interrupt Delay Timer
Enable Interrupt
EV Controller Order
0 - 255 seconds
Yes/No
Enabled/Disabled
0
No
This setting contains the value (in 200-microsecond increments) that a timer uses to set the wait time between generating an interrupt.
Setting this option to YES enables the BIOS to use the IRQ assigned to the ISP24xx.
When set to NO the BIOS will poll for ISP mailbox command completion status.
Disabled This setting enables BIOS compatibility with older HP (G3) systems such as the
ML370G3, DL360G3, and DL380G3. In the default setting, the FC adapter BIOS will load in any CMOS location, allowing the system to boot off an FC drive even after other devices, like a floppy or CD-ROM. When enabled, the QLogic BIOS loads only if the FC adapter is selected as the first controller in the system BIOS/Boot Controller
Order.
3.2 Scan Fibre Devices
This option scans the FC loop and lists all the connected devices by loop ID. It lists information about each device, for example, vendor name, product name, and revision. This information is useful when configuring your QLE80XX board and attached devices.
3.3 Fibre Disk Utility
This option scans the FC loop and lists all the connected devices by loop ID. You can select a FC hard disk and do one of the following:
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Perform a low-level format.
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Verify the disk media.
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Verify the disk data.
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Select a disk device
CAUTION! Performing a low-level format destroys all data on the disk.
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3.4 Loopback Data Test
This option allows you to perform a Loopback test. Make sure that the FC loop is up or a Loopback plug is attached to the adapter before starting the test.
NOTE: If your adapter is attached to a fabric switch port, the adapter and Switch port must be set to run in
Arbitrated Loop mode.
3.5 Select Host Adapter
If you have multiport or multiple similar adapters in your system, use this option to select and then configure or view the settings of a specific adapter port or adapter.
Important! After making changes to the port of QLogic HBA in Fast!UTIL, escape to the top-level menu, and make sure you save the changes before you reboot the system.
3.6 Exit Fast!UTIL
Select Exit from the Options menu to exit Fast!UTIL.
4. Utilities
The QLogic flash programming utility has a DOS batch file for updating the adapter BIOS. Boot to a DOS hard drive, a USB drive, or a Floppy disk and run the update.bat batch file. For example: c:\> update
NOTE: The QLogic package includes the Flash utility used to update the adapter BIOS. The Readme file
FLASUTIL.txt contains the details of the command line options supported by this Utility FLASUTIL.exe.
5. Additional Notes
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If FC RAID target was used in a Cluster Environment, QLogic recommends setting the Enable Target
Reset option to Enabled (Advanced Adapter Settings).
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Use /I option if Flash Utility does not detect your controller.
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This version of BIOS supports MS DOS, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Professional, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Novell NetWare, Solaris x86, and Linux on x86 and x64 based systems.
NOTE: For specific service packs (SP) and OS updates, refer to the descriptions where this software version is posted on the QLogic website ( http://support.qlogic.com/support/drivers_software.aspx
).
6. Contacting Support
Please feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic Technical Support can be reached by the following methods:
Web: http://support.qlogic.com
North America Contact Information
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (952) 932-4040
Support contact information for other regions of the world is available at the QLogic website: http://support.qlogic.com
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