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9210IG.book Page 1 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM INTRODUCTION The Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP provides a 2 gigabit interface between a server and a Fibre Channel storage system and installs into a standard PCI slot. The Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP optical and Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LPC copper adapters supports a high-performance 64-bit and 66 MHz PCI bus (backward compatible to 32-bit and 33 MHz). The PCI bus provides a highspeed (up to 528 MBps) path between the system board and the Fibre Channel adapter.
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9210IG.book Page 3 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP STEP 3 Locate an unused 64-bit PCI expansion slot and remove the expansion slot cover. If the computer does not have a 64-bit slot, you can install the card in a 32-bit PCI slot. Select a PCI expansion slot. Save the slot cover screw for use in Step 4. Slot Cover Screw Expansion Slot Cover 64-bit PCI Slot 32-bit PCI Slot Computers may have vertical or horizontal expansion slots.
9210IG.book Page 4 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide Vertical Installation STEP 4 4 Horizontal Installation Insert the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP into the PCI expansion slot. Press down firmly until the card clicks into place; then replace the slot cover screw. When installed properly, the card should appear level with the expansion slot, as shown below.
9210IG.book Page 5 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP CHANGING THE BRACKET ON YOUR ADAPTER Your Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP comes with a low profile bracket. If you need to attach a standard height bracket, follow these steps: STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 Unscrew the two screws located on the face of your Fibre Channel adapter near your bracket. Set the screws aside. Remove the bracket.
9210IG.book Page 6 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide INSTALLING THE SFP The Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP optical interface requires the installation of a Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) module for the external connector interface before connecting the external Fibre Channel cables. For more information about the SFP, see the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP User’s Reference. STEP 1 STEP 2 Install the SFP into the receptacle on the adapter. Make sure the SFP fits securely into the receptacle.
9210IG.book Page 7 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP CONNECTING CABLES STEP 1 Select the correct cable that matches the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP you have installed. Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP Optical (LC) STEP 2 Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LPC Copper (HSSDC) Install the end connectors of your cable into your computer. The SFP and Fibre Channel cable are keyed, so they can only fit one way.
210IG.book Page 8 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide VERIFYING THE ADAPTER You can verify the adapter and cable installation by powering up the system and looking at the two LEDs on the bulkhead of the adapter.
9210IG.book Page 9 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP INSTALLING THE ADAPTEC FIBRE CARD 9210LP DEVICE DRIVER FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 Installing the Driver When Installing Windows NT 4.0 The Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP driver is not embedded on the Windows NT 4.0 installation disks (or CD-ROM) and must be added during Windows NT installation. See your operating system documentation for instructions.
9210IG.book Page 10 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide STEP 7 STEP 8 To add the driver for other devices in your system, press S for each additional device and insert the appropriate driver disk. Your system manufacturer and respective device vendor should provide these device drivers. Press Enter to continue with the Windows NT operating system setup. Follow the instructions on-screen and in the Windows NT documentation to complete the installation. Completing a Fresh Windows NT 4.
9210IG.book Page 11 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP STEP 7 Press Enter to continue with the Windows NT operating system setup. Follow the instructions on-screen and in the Windows NT documentation to complete the installation. Install the Driver When Windows NT 4.0 is Already Installed STEP 1 Start Windows NT and log into an account with administrative privileges. STEP 2 Insert the Adaptec Fibre Channel Drivers disk into the floppy disk drive.
9210IG.book Page 12 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide STEP 14 STEP 15 Click OK. When the installation is complete, remove the disk, shut down Windows NT, and Click Yes to reboot the system and start the driver. Removing the Driver In certain situations you might need to remove the device driver. Follow these steps to remove the driver: STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 STEP 6 STEP 7 STEP 8 STEP 9 12 Start Windows NT and log into an account with administrative privileges.
9210IG.book Page 13 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP Additional Notes WARNING The following registry files will change your systems registry information. Improper changes can cause the system to become unbootable. Use the options that pertain to your configuration. All the following changes require you to log into Windows NT 4.0 with administrative privileges.
9210IG.book Page 14 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide • Large I/O request performance enhancement: Performance enhancement for a large size I/O request could be done by increasing the maximum number of scattergather lists or NumberOfPhysicalBreaks used by the SCSIPORT driver. This is only needed if you are running a special application that takes advantage of large I/O. The default when not specified in the Registry is 17 elements or a maximum transfer size of 64K.
9210IG.book Page 15 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP INSTALLING THE ADAPTEC FIBRE CARD 9210LP DEVICE DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 2000 Installing the Driver When Installing Windows 2000 The Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP driver is not embedded on the Windows 2000 installation disks (or CD-ROM) and must be added during Windows 2000 installation. See your operating system documentation for instructions.
9210IG.book Page 16 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide STEP 4 A message will appear after a short time, prompting you to install your driver. Press S to specify a driver. STEP 5 Insert the Adaptec Fibre Channel Driver disk into the floppy disk drive and press Enter. STEP 6 You will be presented with a selection of driver choices.
9210IG.book Page 17 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP It will ask, What do you want the wizard to do? Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended), then select Next. STEP 4 For optional search locations, deselect Floppy disk drives and CD-ROM drives. Select Specify a location, then select Next. STEP 5 Insert the Adaptec Fibre Channel Driver disk into the floppy disk drive.
9210IG.book Page 18 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide Removing the Driver To uninstall the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP, follow these steps: STEP 1 Turn OFF your system and remove the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP from your computer. STEP 2 Once you reboot the system, Windows 2000 will recognize that the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP has been removed. Additional Notes WARNING The following registry files will change your systems registry information.
9210IG.book Page 19 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP • N-port support: If the switch is configured as an F_port, the adapter should be configured as an N_port. When the adapter is configured as an N_port: To enable or disable N_Port: 1. Go to the Start button and select Run... 2. Type a:\win2000\nport_on.reg Replace nport_on.reg with nport_off.reg if you would like to disable N_port support. 3. Select OK for the pop up window. • 4.
9210IG.book Page 20 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide INSTALLING THE ADAPTEC FIBRE CARD 9210LP DEVICE DRIVER FOR SUN SOLARIS Before installing the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP driver, Solaris should be installed. NOTE You cannot install the operating system to a drive attached to the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP. STEP 1 STEP 2 Login as root. Turn off volume manager by typing: #/etc/init.d/volmgt stop Press Enter. Insert the Adaptec Fibre Channel Drivers disk in your floppy disk drive.
9210IG.book Page 21 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP STEP 7 The following text will appear on the screen: 1. AFC9XXX Adaptec Fibre Channel for Solaris 8 Driver Select package you wish to process (or ‘all’ to process all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q] : Make appropriate selections to install AFC9XXX. STEP 8 STEP 9 When the installation is completed, remove the disk. Reboot the system with the Configuration option. This can be done by: 1.
9210IG.book Page 22 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide Removing the Driver To uninstall the Adaptec Fibre Channel driver disk: STEP 1 STEP 2 Start Solaris login as root. From the Solaris console, type the command: # pkgrm AFC9XXX Press Enter. The following message appears: Do you want to remove this package? [y,n,?] y This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user permission during the process of removing this package.
9210IG.book Page 23 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP INSTALLING THE ADAPTEC FIBRE CARD 9210LP DEVICE DRIVER FOR NOVELL NETWARE Before loading the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP driver, verify that the programs NWPA.NLM and SCSIHD.CDM are loaded on your system. In addition, NetWare should be running in a normal state. Loading the Driver on an Existing NetWare Server STEP 1 Insert the Adaptec Fibre Channel driver disk for Novell NetWare 5.1 into the floppy disk drive.
9210IG.book Page 24 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide STEP 3 Remove the floppy disk after the driver loads. The drives are now ready to be configured using the normal network administrator access to create volumes and/or partition the drives. The startup.ncf file can be modified to load the driver automatically whenever the server is rebooted.
9210IG.book Page 25 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP Updating the Driver To update the driver: STEP 1 Perform the Unload procedure and make a backup of the old driver. See Unloading the Driver on page 24. STEP 2 Perform the Load procedure. See Loading the Driver on an Existing NetWare Server on page 23. Additional Notes • During initial OS installation, do not install the OS on a • • • • • device attached to the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP. Currently, AFC9XXX.
9210IG.book Page 26 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide If you try to use a value less than 10 Sec OR greater than 90 Sec, driver will display the warning shown below and will load with default value of 45 Seconds. AFC9XXX: Invalid timeout parameter AFC9XXX: Default timeout value of 45 Sec will be used • LUN Support Description: Maximum luns in PERIPHERAL_DEVICE_ADDRESSING mode our driver supports are 255(0...254) and For EMC in volume set addressing mode it supports 256(0...255).
9210IG.book Page 27 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP STEP 4 If you have additional HBA disks, insert the next HBA disk, select Install Another HBA Disk, and press Enter. If all of your HBA disks have been installed, remove the last HBA disk, select Continue Installation, and press Enter. STEP 5 STEP 6 STEP 7 If necessary, enter the Device Configuration Utility (DCU) to view/change the UnixWare device configuration data.
9210IG.book Page 28 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide STEP 1 STEP 2 Back Up the Computer: Back up the old UnixWare kernel and any other important files. Load the package by typing: # pkgadd -d diskette1 This message is displayed: Insert diskette into Floppy Drive 1 Type [go] when ready or [q] to quit: (default: go) Press Enter. This message will appear: Installation in progress. Do not remove the diskette.
9210IG.book Page 29 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP STEP 3 When the installation is completed, remove the disk and rebuild the kernel by typing the command: # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B Press Enter. STEP 4 Verify the correct driver is installed by typing the command: # pkginfo -1 afc9xxx STEP 5 Reboot the system to make sure the system boots correctly.
9210IG.book Page 30 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Installation Guide STEP 3 When the uninstallation is completed, rebuild the kernel by typing the command: # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B Press Enter. STEP 4 Reboot the system to make sure the system boots correctly. Type the command: # init 6 The following sequences will happen after the init 6 command is issued: • Terminates running services. • Save your /stand/unix to /stand/unix.old then • copy the new kernel from /etc/conf/cf.d/unix to /stand/unix.
9210IG.book Page 31 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP STEP 3 From the boot prompt, Type dir to list all files in /stand directory; unix.old is one of the files the system has saved for you before the last reboot. Type the following to boot with the old kernel: BOOTPROG=unix.old Press Enter. Type go then press Enter. STEP 4 STEP 5 Your computer should now boot from the backup kernel created earlier. Save the backup kernel to names other than unix.old.
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9210IG.book Page 33 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP NOTE A possible cause of driver or device failure could be that the loop is not completed. In other words, the devices are not connected in a series to form a loop. This does not apply if you are using a hub or a switch. If you are still unable to resolve a problem, see the Adaptec Fibre Card 9210LP User’s Reference, the Adaptec Web site at http://www.adaptec.com, or the Adaptec Support Knowledgebase at http://ask.adaptec.
9210IG.book Page 35 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM Copyright © 2001 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Adaptec, Inc., 691 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035. Trademarks Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec, Inc., which may be registered in some jurisdictions.
9210IG.book Page 36 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Adaptec, Inc.
9210IG.book Page 38 Monday, April 2, 2001 11:13 AM © 2001 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. SOURCE NUMBER: 512777-00, Ver.
