>Thanks for the help.
>
>I received several useful responses which allowed me to get the
Fibre
>Channel adapters to work.
>
>I ended up changing the card slot and upgrading to v5.0a. The
system boots
>properly and v5.0a adds a FC utility called "emxmgr" which gives
the ability
>to configure the FC adapters and provides substantial connection
info.
>
>
>The original questions:
>
> > The first question is: Does this hardware support
Fibre Channel?
> > Next being: Can it be made to work?
> > I have an AlphaStation 500 running v4.0f with the
latest patch
>cluster and
> > Console V7.2.
> > I have both a KGPSA-BC (Emulex LP7000) and a
KGPSA-CA (Emulex
>LP8000) that
> > I > have been working with. When either card is
installed Tru64
>will not
> > finish > booting claiming that it cannot mount
/usr.
> > At the console prompt I have tried running wwidmgr
and the command
>is not
> > found.
> > My suspicion is that Fibre Channel is only
supported on servers
>and is not
> > in the AlphaStation firmware.
> > Could I safely load server firmware from some
AlphaServer? Which
>might be
> > compatible, since there isn't a AlphaServer 500?
>
>
>
>As far as failing to boot:
>AlphaStation 500s have the obnoxious feature that the bottom PCI
slot has a
>lower ID number than the motherboard's SCSI host adapter. When you
put a
>SCSI host adapter in that slot, the motherboard SCSI changes from A
to B,
>which also changes the name of the SCSI bus as seen by the
operating system.
>This change causes problems when booting a system disk that was
created when
>the bottom slot was empty: it'll load the kernel and then fall
over, since
>the entries in /etc/fstab are suddenly wrong.
>
>While I wasn't using the bottom slot I tried a different slot and
"presto".
>I could finish booting.
>
>And wwidmgr via server firmware:
> I don't think it would be wise to try and load firmware for
a
>different system on the workstation. You might end up with a large
bookend.
>
>
>Thanks to:
>Selden E Ball Jr [SEB_at_LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU]
>alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com <mailto:alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
<mailto:alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com> >
>g.j.hilbrands_at_kpn.com <mailto:g.j.hilbrands_at_kpn.com
<mailto:g.j.hilbrands_at_kpn.com> >
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 12:26:59 NZST