How to enable hba port of a two port hba card

rishiraaz · February 18, 2011, 8:17am

Hi,

i have a two port hba card in solaris 10 system one of which is disabled. How to enable and configure the other port.

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please help

oky · February 21, 2011, 12:51am

Does the HBA is recognized in the OS.
if you are not sure, prtdiag -v and grep for version in /var/adm/messages, then check the fcinfo hba-port

scorpionzoe · February 21, 2011, 8:53am

what you get if you issue the following command:

#fcinfo hba-port

rishiraaz · February 21, 2011, 12:51pm

fcinfo hba-port

shows three cards
all connected

tried syminq hba

it also shows 3 cards all online

all the three cards are one port cards as far as i found .

is there any command which shows the offline cards ??

scorpionzoe · February 21, 2011, 3:12pm

Yes there is a useful command :

# cfgadm -a [to see the appropriate port to enable]
You can use the man to get the help but in all cases if the cards have been disabled you can enable'em:
# cfgadm -c connect name_of_port
# cfgadm -c configure name_of_port
The man pages in the top of the page, they are very useful for thorough details.

rishiraaz · February 25, 2011, 1:22am

thanks a lot

scorpionzoe · February 25, 2011, 5:49pm

You are most welcome, but was it helpful?
take care

rishiraaz · February 27, 2011, 12:19am

yes , it helped
thnx