fibre card driver for aix433 ml9

[nogg123]

installed an emulex single port lc card in F50.
can see it in lscfg
tried to install from cd 1 aix 433

needs devices.pci.fibre-channel
and devices.pci.pciclass.0c0400

can't find on cd or on 5.1 or 5.2

does anyone know if it exists and where I can get a copy?

 

[comtec17]

devices.pci.fibre-channel does not exist.

 

[nogg123]

usefull answer, thanx!

so

a. why does AIX ask for it?
b. what should it be asking for?
c. can I try the emulex driver?

 

[plamb]

it the emulux card supported by AIX/IBM??? what is the feature code/ part number

 

[trifo]

Hi!

As far as I know, there is only one FC card type with LC connector that can be used with AiX 4.3.3. This is type 6228. It needs the following packages:

devices.pci.df1000f7.com (common FC stuff)
devices.pci.df1000f9.rte (driver)
devices.pci.df1000f9.diag (card diagnostic ftuff)

If you succeed to obtain a 6239 type card, you will have to upgrade to AiX 5.x

--Trifo

 

[DukeSSD]

Further to the above, a nice man in IBM once emailed me this, in relation to the 6228 / 4-W:

DRIVERS:
1) Adapter:
devices.pci.df1000f9.rte
pre-requisites for the above:
devices.common.IBM.fc.rte.*
devices.pci.df1000f7.com
2) Adapter Diagnostics
devices.pci.df1000f9.diag
pre-requisites for the above:
devices.common.IBM.fc.rte.*
devices.pci.df1000f7.com
devices.pci.df1000f7.diag
3) Attached devices:
devices.fcp.disk.rte.*
devices.fcp.disk.array.*

 

[bonsky]

yeah, true, only IBM card can be installed in a pseries machine. This is because of those microcode installed in the card itself.
thanks!

 

[nogg123]

ok, I get the gist !

only 6228 cards work in 433 !!

thanks everyone for your input

 

[trifo]

For real, there are two types usable in AiX 433: 6227 and 6228. But 6228 is the only with LC port.

--Trifo

 

[DukeSSD]

There is a frig you can do on one of the emulex cards, from memory.....AT YOUR OWN RISK....
Move the two jumpers (near the top of the card) from the inside positions to the outside positions, then flash the card with ibm firmware and it will behave as the equivalent ibm card. (6228 4-w)
Sadly I can't remember which emulex card it was (one of the ibm cards is the same as the emulex but with the different jumper positions and firmware - ie. emulex manufactured it and ibm developed their own firmware and released it as a feature).
I don't think ibm will "support" the reflashed cards unless they have a record of doing the change for you (the card vpd will still show it was an emulex not ibm when new - some deal they had with emulex a while ago) but it should work just like the real thing.
Original emulex cards were never supported by ibm, you will need to go to emulex for the aix device drivers if you don't want to try the frig.