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Roberto Devo

2004-10-29, 5:45 pm

Hello,

I'm trying to connect a 3510 fibre channel storage array to a V20z
(AMD opteron) box running
64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

Both the 3510 and the V20z are sun products:

http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/3000/3500/3510/
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/

I tested the 3510 by connecting it to a sparc box running Solaris 9
(with the SAN packages installed).
The sparc box and the 3510 worked well together.

Next, I put a fibre channel card in the V20z:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pr..._Single_FC.html

I ran a cable from the 3510 to the fibre channel card in the V20z.

I booted the V20z.

Result:
-no link light on the 3510
-both amber and green light on the fibre channel

So, I'm curious:

- Have you ever successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre channel
connection?
- Do you know of anyone who has successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre
channel connection?
- Is there anything I should be aware of when attempting to set this
up?
- How would you trouble shoot my no-link-light problem?

-Thanks,

-moi
Wolf

2004-10-30, 5:45 pm

"Roberto Devo" <jdevroberto@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b4942975.0410291108.1ca618a2@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to connect a 3510 fibre channel storage array to a V20z
> (AMD opteron) box running
> 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.


[snip]

> I booted the V20z.
>
> Result:
> -no link light on the 3510
> -both amber and green light on the fibre channel
>
> So, I'm curious:
>
> - Have you ever successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre channel
> connection?
> - Do you know of anyone who has successfully setup a V20z-3510 fibre
> channel connection?
> - Is there anything I should be aware of when attempting to set this
> up?
> - How would you trouble shoot my no-link-light problem?


I have not but have been working on getting a SAN up and tested
and have come up against the same problems. You most probably
need to find a driver for controller that is RHEL compliant and install
it. If it already has the driver, try using modprobe to install it.



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