QLogic QLA2300 SCSI PnP Miniport Driver for Windows .NET/XP/2000 (x86)
Contents
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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
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1. OS Support
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This release of driver works with Windows .NET/XP/2000 (x86).
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2. Supported Features
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* 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
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3. Release History
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Please refer to Release Notes.
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4. Creating the Driver Diskette
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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:.
3. Run the self-extracting file you just downloaded specifying A:\ for
"Unzip To Folder:".
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5. 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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5.1. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Boot
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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.
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5.2. Initial OS installation with the QLogic Controller as Add-On
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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.
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5.3. Adding the QLogic Controller to the Existing OS
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Perform the following steps to add the driver to the existing Windows
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
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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 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.
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5.4. Updating the Existing QLogic Driver
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* 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
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* 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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6. 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.
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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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7. Driver Parameters
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The driver parameters are divided into System Parameters and NVRAM
Parameters sections.
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7.1. System Registgry 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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7.2. NVRAM Parameters
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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
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8. Limitations
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* None
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9. Additional Notes
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* 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
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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
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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.
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10. Using Fast!UTIL to change the connection options
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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
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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.
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11. Diskette Content
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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
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12. 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) 2000 QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
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