QLogic QLA2300 SCSI PnP Miniport Driver for Windows Server 2003/2000
Contents
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1. OS Support
2. Supported Features
3. Creating the Driver Diskette or Folder
4. Installing the Driver
4.1. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Boot
4.2. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Add-On
4.3. Adding the QLogic Controller to the Existing OS
4.4. Updating the Existing QLogic Driver
5. Removing the Driver
6. Driver Parameters
6.1. System Registry Parameters
7. Additional Notes
8. Driver Package Content
9. Contacting QLogic
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1. OS Support
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This release of driver works with Windows Server 2003/2000.
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2. Supported Features
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* Windows Server 2003/2000 SCSI PnP interface
* Support Point-To-Point F port, FL port, N port and Arbitrated Loop
configurations
* Provide Enhanced Loop Id support (251 Loop Ids) in F port configuration
* Full-duplex operation in loop configuration
* Extended Lun support
* IP support
* Dynamic LUN Masking support
* Scan attached target device by port name
* FC Tape support
* Management Server interface support
* Reduced Interrupt Operation
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3. Creating the Driver Diskette or Folder
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1. Locate the driver you want on the QLogic website and click "Link to
driver."
2. If prompted "What would you like to do with this file?" choose
"Save this program to disk". Specify a temporary location on
the hard drive and download the driver.
3. Insert a blank diskette in the diskette drive A: if you are extracting
to a diskette.
3. Run the self-extracting file you just downloaded specifying A:\ for
"Unzip To Folder:" or to the folder where driver files will be located.
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4. Installing the Driver
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This section is divided into the following four sections.
1. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Boot
2. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Add-on
3. Adding the QLogic Controller to the Existing OS
4. Updating the existing QLogic Driver
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4.1. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Boot
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This procedure requires the system equipped with a floppy drive.
Follow the procedure below to initially install Windows on the
boot disk attached to the QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter:
1. Start Windows installation procedure using the Setup
diskettes or CD.
2. If you are booting from the CD, press F6 if you see the message
Press F6 if you want to install a thrid party SCSI or RAID
Driver ...
After all the standard devices have been loaded, press S to Specify
Additional Device. Go to step 5.
3. If you are booting from the floppy diskette, after the standard
devices have been detected and configured, press S to Specify
Additional Device.
4. Select Other and press ENTER.
5. Insert the QLogic software diskette and press ENTER.
6. Select the QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter and press ENTER.
7. Continue with standard installation procedure.
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4.2. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Add-On
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This procedure requires the system equipped with a floppy drive.
Perform the following steps to install Windows and the QLogic
driver on the device not attached to the QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter
1. Start Windows installation procedure using the Setup
diskettes or CD.
2. When Windows detects the newly installed device by displaying
the Found New Hardware with SCSI controller message and start the
Found New Hardware wizard program to start the process of
installing a device driver for the newly installed device.
3. Click Next.
4. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended).
Click Next.
5. Scroll down the Hardware types list, select SCSI and RAID
controllers and click Next.
6. Insert the QLogic Software Diskette into drive A: and click Have
Disk.
7. On the Install From Disk screen, type in
A:\
and click OK.
8. Click Next.
9. On the Start Device Driver Installation screen, click Next.
10. When the Digital Signature Not found screen appears, select Yes.
11. Click Finish on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard/Completing the
Upgrade Device Driver Wizard.
12. You will be prompted the message:
Your hardware settings have changed. You must restart your
computer for these changes to take effect.
Do you want to restart your computer now?
Click Yes to restart the computer right away.
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4.3. Adding the QLogic Controller to the Existing OS
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Perform the following steps to add the driver to the existing Windows
system.
QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters are devices that are Plug and Play
compatible to your computer. The step-by-step procedure to install
a Plug and Play device is:
1. Connect the device to the appropriate slot on your computer
according to the device manufacturer’s instructions.
2. Restart or turn on your computer.
3. When your computer comes up, Windows will detect the newly
installed device by displaying the Found New Hardware with SCSI
controller message and start the Found New Hardware wizard program
to start the process of installing a device driver for the newly
installed device.
4. Click Next.
5. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended).
Click Next.
6. Scroll down the Hardware types list, select SCSI and RAID
controllers and click Next.
7. Insert the QLogic Software Diskette into drive A: and click Have
Disk.
8. On the Install From Disk screen, type in
A:\ or choose the folder where driver files are located
and click OK.
9. Click Next.
10. On the Start Device Driver Installation screen, click Next.
11. When the Digital Signature Not found screen appears, select Yes.
12. Click Finish on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard/Completing the
Upgrade Device Driver Wizard.
13. You will be prompted the message:
Your hardware settings have changed. You must restart your
computer for these changes to take effect.
Do you want to restart your computer now?
Click Yes to restart the computer right away.
Notes
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* If the driver has already been installed once, and you are adding
an additional HBA onto the system, when the system comes up, it
will detect the device correctly by displaying the Found New
Hardware with QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter message.
Follow the procedure below to complete the driver installation:
1. When the Digital Signature Not Found screen is displayed,
select Yes.
2. When the Insert Disk message appears, insert the QLogic
Software Diskette into drive A: and click OK.
3. Click Finish on the Found New Hardware Wizard/Completing the
Found New Hardware Wizard screen.
4. You will be prompted the message:
Your hardware settings have changed. You must restart your
computer for these changes to take effect.
Do you want to restart your computer now?
Click Yes to restart the computer right away.
* QLogic is in the processing of obtaining a Digital Signature for
the driver through the official WHQL process from Microsoft. Once a
valid Digital Signature has been obtained and put in the CAT file,
the Digital Signature Not found screen should not appear.
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4.4. Updating the Existing QLogic Driver
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* Windows Server 2000
Perform the following steps if the driver is already
installed and you want to install an updated version of the driver.
1. Start the Device Manager by clicking Start, pointing to Settings,
clicking Control Panel, double clicking System applet, clicking
Hardware tab, and clicking the Device Manager button.
2. Use scroll bar to scroll down the list of hardware types, double
click the SCSI and RAID controller.
3. Select QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter from the devices list and then
click Properties.
4. Click the Driver tab, and then click Update Driver to start the
Upgrade Device Driver Wizard. Click Next.
5. Select Display a list of the known device drivers for this device
so that I can choose a specific driver. Click Next.
6. Insert the QLogic Software Diskette into drive A: and click Have
Disk.
7. On the Copy manfacturer's files from, type in
A:\ or choose the folder where driver files are located
and click OK.
8. Click Next on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard/Select a Device
Driver screen.
9. Click Next on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard/Start Device Driver
Installation screen.
10. When the Digital Signature Not found screen appears, select Yes.
11. Click Finish on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard/Completing the
Upgrade Device Driver Wizard.
12. You will be prompted the message:
Your hardware settings have changed. You must restart your
computer for these changes to take effect.
Do you want to restart your computer now?
Click Yes to restart the computer right away.
* Windows Server 2003
Perform the following steps if the driver is already
installed and you want to install an updated version of the driver.
1. Start the Device Manager by clicking Start, clicking Control Panel,
clicking System applet, clicking Hardware tab, and clicking the
Device Manager button.
2. Use scroll bar to scroll down the list of hardware types, double
click the SCSI and RAID controller.
3. Select QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter from the devices list and then
click Properties.
4. Click the Driver tab, and then click Update Driver to start the
Upgrade Device Driver Wizard. Click Next.
5. Select Install from a list or specific location(Advanced). click
Next.
6. Select Don't search I will choose the driver to install. Click Next.
7. Insert the QLogic Software Diskette into drive A: and click Have
Disk.
8. On the Copy manfacturer's files from, type in
A:\ or choose the folder where driver files are located
and click OK.
9. When the Hardware Update Wizard/Select a Device Driver dialog box
displays, click Next.
10. When the Hardware Installation dialog box displays, select Continue
Anyway.
12. Click Finish on the Hardware Update Wizard/Completing the
Hardware Update Wizard.
Note
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* QLogic is in the process of obtaining a Digital Signature for
the driver through the official WHQL process from Microsoft. Once
a valid Digital Signature has been obtained and put in the CAT
file, the Digital Signature Not found screen should not appear.
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5. Removing the Driver
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To uninstall a Plug and Play device:
* Turn off your computer and remove the device from your computer
according to the manufacturers instructions.
Note
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* You do not normally have to use the Device Manager or the Hardware
wizard to uninstall a Plug and Play device. After you have removed
the device from your computer, and you have restarted your
computer, Windows will recognize that it has been removed.
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6. Driver Parameters
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6.1. System Registry Parameters
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* MaximumSGList
Windows includes enhanced scatter/gather list support for
doing very large SCSI I/O transfers. Windows supports up to
256 scatter/gather segments of 4096 bytes each, allowing transfers
up to 1048576 bytes.
NOTE: the OEMSETUP.INF file has been updated to automatically
update the registry to support 65 scatter/gather segments.
Normally, no additional changes will be necessary as this
typically results in the best overall performance.
If you wish to alter this value, please use the following
procedure:
1. Click on "Start", select "Run", and open the REGEDT32 program.
2. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and follow the tree structure down to
the QLogic driver as follows:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
Ql2300
Parameters
Device
3. Double click on
MaximumSGList:REG_DWORD:0x21
4. Enter a value from 16 to 255 (0x10 hex to 0xFF). A value of
255 (0xFF) enables the maximum 1 MByte transfer size. Setting
a value higher than 255 results with the default of 64K
transfers. The default value is 33 (0x21).
5. Click OK.
6. Exit the Registry Editor, then shutdown and reboot the system.
* NumberOfRequests
Windows supports the "NumberOfRequests" registry parameter to
specify the maximum number of outstanding requests per adapter.
When the QLogic driver is installed, the registry will be
automatically updated with this parameter set to a value of
150 (0x96).
WARNING: DO NOT increase this parameter above 150. Doing so can
result in a system failure.
* UseSameNN
By default, if you have multiple Fibre Channel HBAs on the same
system, the driver will assign the world wide node name obtained
from the first HBA to the rest of the HBAs.
If you wish to have each HBAs to assume the world wide node name
based on its own NVRAM content, you need to disable this feature
by setting the UseSameNN parameter to 0. Please use the following
procedure to change the UseSameNN parameter:
1. Click on "Start", select "Run", and open the REGEDT32 program.
2. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and follow the tree structure down to
the QLogic driver as follows:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
Ql2300
Parameters
Device
3. Double click on
DriverParameters:REG_SZ:MSCS=2;UseSameNN=1
4. If the string "UseSameNN=" does not exist, append to end of
string
;UseSameNN=0
5. If the string "UseSameNN=1" exists, change the value from 1 to 0.
6. Click OK.
7. Exit the Registry Editor, then shutdown and reboot the system.
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7. Additional Notes
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* To ensure the driver function properly, the driver changes some
of the system related registry entries such as the disk timeout value
of the system disk driver during driver installation through the use
of the OEMSETUP.INF file. Those values are not being restored upon
driver removal.
8. Driver Package Content
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The following files in this Driver Package support Windows:
1. QLOGIC - Driver Package identification file
2. TXTSETUP.OEM - Driver installation script for text mode
installation
3. OEMSETUP.INF - Driver installation script
4. QLPSEUDO.INF - Pseudo device installation script
5. QL2300.CAT - Catalog file
6. QL2300.SYS - QLogic QLA2300 PCI Fibre Channel miniport
driver
7. RELEASE.TXT - Release notes
8. README.TXT - This file
9. QLSDM.DLL - QLogic Api
10. COCPYINF.DLL - Co-installer dll
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9. Contacting QLogic
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Please visit QLogic's website (http://www.qlogic.com). On this site
you will find product information, our latest drivers and links for
technical assistance if needed.
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Copyright (c) 2004 QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
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After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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