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Installing the HBA Driver
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Installing and Configuring the HBA Driver
Where to Find the
Driver
You can find the Fibre Channel HBA driver:
◆ on the QLogic CD-ROM that accompanied the HBA. Copy the
driver from the OS-specific directory:\Windows2000 or
\Windows2003.
◆ on the QLogic website. Refer to Downloading QLogic Drivers and
Firmware on page 2-2.
To ease installation of the driver, unzip the driver file onto a blank
diskette.
Windows 2003 STORPort Updates
Currently the shipping version of Windows 2003 requires post-RTM
hotfixes to resolve some known issues. For all Windows 2003
STORPort installations, you should obtain the current Microsoft QFE
hotfix listed in the EMC Support Matrix with the HBA driver
revisions.
Install this patch before installing the HBA driver. Windows 2003 Service
Pack 1 (x86 and IA64) and Windows 2003 x64 contain the latest STORPort
hotfix and does not require a post-rtm QFE.
ATTENTION: EMC recommends that users planning to upgrade to Service
Pack 1 for Windows 2003 should upgrade their HBA drivers to the latest
supported version prior to installing the service pack.
Extended Error Logging by QLogic Drivers
In driver versions prior to the 9.X family, additional messages were
logged in the system event log when the "extended error logging"
parameter was enabled in the HBA BIOS. The messages were
primarily informational, but often confused users by appearing to be
legitimate error messages.
Driver family 9.X and beyond will no longer log these additional
messages in the event log even if the “extended error logging”
parameter is enabled. New tools have been developed for developers
and engineers troubleshooting customer problems without the need
for these messages. Visit the website
http://www.qlogic.com/support/logs/event_log.asp
for
information about QLogic event messages.”
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