QLogic QLA2300 SCSI PnP Miniport Driver for Windows .NET/XP/2000 (x86) Contents ======== 1. OS Support 2. Supported Features 3. Release History 4. Creating the Driver Diskette 5. Installing the Driver 5.1. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Boot 5.2. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Add-On 5.3. Adding the QLogic Controller to the Existing OS 5.4. Updating the Existing QLogic Driver 6. Removing the Driver 7. Driver Parameters 7.1. System Registry Parameters 7.2. NVRAM Parameters 8. Limitations 9. Additional Notes 10. Using Fast!UTIL to change the connection options 11. Diskette Content 12. Contacting QLogic ====================================================================== 1. OS Support ------------- This release of driver works with Windows .NET/XP/2000 (x86). ====================================================================== 2. Supported Features --------------------- * Windows .NET/XP/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 ====================================================================== 3. Release History ------------------ Please refer to Release Notes. ====================================================================== 4. Creating the Driver Diskette ------------------------------- 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:. 3. Run the self-extracting file you just downloaded specifying A:\ for "Unzip To Folder:". ====================================================================== 5. Installing the Driver ------------------------ 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 ====================================================================== 5.1. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Boot --------------------------------------------------------------- Follow the procedure below to initially install Windows on the boot disk attached to the QLogic QLA2300 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 QLA2300 PCI Fibre Channel Adapter and press ENTER. 7. Continue with standard installation procedure. ====================================================================== 5.2. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Add-On ----------------------------------------------------------------- Perform the following steps to install Windows and the QLogic driver on the device not attached to the QLA2300 controller. 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. ====================================================================== 5.3. Adding the QLogic Controller to the Existing OS ---------------------------------------------------- Perform the following steps to add the driver to the existing Windows 2000 system. QLogic QLA2300 HBAs 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:\ 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 ----- * 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 QLA2300 PCI 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. ====================================================================== 5.4. Updating the Existing QLogic Driver ---------------------------------------- * Windows 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 QLA2300 PCI 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:\ 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 XP 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, performance and maintenance, administrative tools, double clicking computer management and then 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. Double click the QLogic QLA23xx PCI Fibre Channel Adapter from the devices list. 4. Click the Driver tab, and then click Update Driver to start the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard. 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 manufacturer’s files from, type in A:\ and click OK. 9. Click Next on the Hardware Update Wizard/Select the Device Driver screen. 10. When the Hardware Installation screen appears, select Continue Anyway. 11. Click Finish on the Hardware Update Wizard/Completing the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard. 12. Click Close on the Qlogic QLA23xx PCI Fibre Channel Adapter Properties screen. 13. You will be prompted with 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. Note ---- * 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. ====================================================================== 6. Removing the Driver ---------------------- To uninstall a Plug and Play device: * Turn off your computer and remove the device from your computer according to the manufacturers instructions. Note ---- * 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. ====================================================================== 7. Driver Parameters -------------------- The driver parameters are divided into System Parameters and NVRAM Parameters sections. ====================================================================== 7.1. System Registgry Parameters -------------------------------- * 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. ====================================================================== 7.2. NVRAM Parameters --------------------- The NVRAM features described below are hard-coded in the driver. The changes made for the particular NVRAM feature in the Fast!Util do not take effect unless otherwise noted. * None ====================================================================== 8. Limitations -------------- * None ====================================================================== 9. Additional Notes ------------------- * Enhanced Loop Id Of 0 - FFh Loop Ids, some are preallocated for special functions and are not available for use by devices: Loop Ids Functions -------- --------- 7Eh FL_Port (S_ID=FFFFFEh) 7Fh Switch Fabric Controller (S_IS=FFFFFDh) 80h Switch Name Server (S_ID=FFFFFCh) 81h Switch Embedded Port (FFFc4xh) used for FC-4 probing (Brocade only) FFh IP Broadcast * Connection options The following connection options are supported: Value Options ----- ------- 00 Start in loop mode, by transmitting Lip F7F7 01 Start in point-to-point mode, by transmitting NOS/OLS 02 Start in loop mode first, then switch to point-to-point mode if NOS is detected The connection option is currently stored in the NVRAM and can be changed through the FastUtil. The default value of the connection mode is 2. * FC Tape support This can be enabled/disabled in the Fast!Util\Extended Firmware Settings. * Notes on using the QLogic Optimizing & Multipath driver to do failover on JBOD To allow the failover feature to work properly with JBOD configuration using the QLogic Optimizing & Multipath driver, you need to enable device tracking by node name. This can be done by setting the Portname value of the DriverParameters registry to 0, as described in the previous section. * Management Server API support Currently, the Management Server API support is only available for ISP2300 product family and the only switch that support the Management Server is Brocade Model 2400 ("Cocoon"). * 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. * Notes on LUN 0 issue In order for NT4 to see the device properly, LUN 0 has to be configured. * Updating the system with earlier version of the driver that does not have QLogic Api included Starting with v8.1.5, the driver installation installs both the driver and the QLogic Api (qlsdm.dll). This is reflected in the oemsetup.inf of the driver. However, Windows appears to always reference the latest oemsetup.inf during driver update and when you try to update the driver with earlier version of the driver release that does not come with the QLogic Api, Windows asks you for the file. The work around is to copy the %SystemRoot%\system32\qlsdm.dll file to the root directory of the floppy so that the update can be complete. ====================================================================== 10. Using Fast!UTIL to change the connection options ---------------------------------------------------- The connection option of the QLA2300 HBA is stored in the NVRAM of the HBA. It defines the type of connection (loop or point-to-point) or connection preference with which the ISP2300 RISC processor use during the initialization process. To change the change the connection option using the Fast!UTIL, please follow the steps below: 1. Reboot the system. 2. When you see the QLogic QLA2300 BIOS banner and the message: Press <Alt-Q> for Fast!UTIL press ALT-Q and the QLogic Fast!UTIL menu will come up. 3. If you have more than one QLA2300 HBA's in the system, the "Select Host Adapter" menu will appear. Use the UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW keys to select the HBA you like the connection option to be changed (each HBA in the list is differentiated by its unique I/O Address) and press ENTER. The "Fast!UTIL Options" menu will come up. If you have only one QLA2300 HBA in the system, the "Fast Util Options" menu will come up directly. 4. Select "Configuration Settings" from the Fast!UTIL Options menu by using the UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW keys and hit ENTER. The "Configuration Settings" option should be hightlighted by default. 5. On the "Configuration Settings" menu, use the DOWN ARROW key to move the cursor to the "Extended Firmware Settings" and press ENTER. 6. The "Extended Firmware Settings" menu will appear. The "Connection Options" field of the menu shows the current connection option value the HBA has. On the "Extended Firmware Settings" menu, use the DOWN ARROW key to move the cursor to the "Connection Options" and press ENTER. A menu with the available connection options will appear. 7. Use the UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW keys to move the cursor to the desired option. The available options are: Option Type of Connection ------ ------------------ 0 Loop only 1 Point to point only 2 Loop preferred, otherwise point to point If the current setting is 2, the default setting and you would like to change it to 0, just use the UP ARROW key to select option 0 and press ENTER. If the current setting is 0 and you would like to change it to 2, just use the DOWN ARROW key to select option 3 and press ENTER. Note: if you do not want to make any change, just press ESC to exit this menu. 8. After you hit ENTER, the "Extended Firmware Settings" menu should re-appear and the value shown for the "Connection Options" field should display the value you just selected. Press ESC to exit the "Extended Firmware Settings" menu. 9. Press ESC again to go back to the "Configuration Settings" screen. 10. Press ESC again and the "Configuration settings modified" menu will appear, if you have made any changes. The "Save changes" option should already be highlighted. If not, select the the "Save changes" option and press ENTER. This will save the connection option you just changed for the selected HBA. 11. The "Fast!UTIL Options" screen will appear after the changes have been saved. If you have more than one HBAs in the system, and would like to change the connection option for the other HBA, move the cursor to the "Select Host Adapter" option and press Enter. This will allow you to go back to the "Select Host Adapter" menu to select another HBA. Go back to step 3 to repeat the process of changing the connection options for the next HBA. Press ESC to exit the Fast!UTIL if there is only one HBA in the system, or there is no need to make addtional changes. 12. The "Exit Fast!UTIL" will pop up. The "Reboot System" option should be highlighted. If not, select the "Reboot System" option. Press ENTER to reboot the system. 13. The system will reboot and the new connection option will be effective when the system comes up. ====================================================================== 11. Diskette Content -------------------- The following files on this diskette support Windows: 1. QLOGIC - Diskette 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 ====================================================================== 12. Contacting QLogic --------------------- Please visit QLogic's website (http://www.qlogic.com). 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