BIOS and firmware for FCA2214 HBA

[Danesh Qureshi]

I have two HP DL580 servers running RHEL AS 3 update 6. Each HP DL580 has two HBA cards called QLogic QLA2312 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 2 device 2 irq 7
Firmware version: 3.03.11, Driver version 7.05.00-RH1

I need to upgrade the firmware and BIOS on these HBA cards. Where can I find the firmware,driver and Bios for these cards?

[Anthony Martin_1]

Hi Danesh,
Did you buy these cards from HP? You should confirm that these are HP cards before upgrading firmware etc. HP has a version of BIOS that is different from the QLogic firmware.
If they are HP cards, then they are probably the FCA2214
Here is the link to the RHEL3 drivers and BIOS updates, since it appears that you are running on a 2.4.x kernel.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=315741&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=315739&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1080

Since you are running Proliant servers, when you run the FLASUTIL to upgrade the BIOS, I suggest you use the /I option. I have had issues in the past when upgrading the firmware, due to the flasutil program not detecting any HBA's in the server.

Hope this helps
Anthony

[Danesh Qureshi]

Hi Anthony,

Thank you for your very useful advice and help.
I was downloaded the BIOS & Firmware from HP's website. I then followed the installation procedure as explained in the Release notes.
After I upgraded the Qlogic HBA I looked in /var/log/dmesg file. I have captured some output to show you the firmware and driver version these HBA Qlogic cards are on.
Can you tell from the following information below if the HBA cards are from HP?

We purchased the HP Proliant servers from a third party company. The HBA cards came with servers.


Linux version 2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp (bhcompile@hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-54)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 11 18:44:17 EST 2006

scsi0 : QLogic QLA2312 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 2 device 2 irq 7
Firmware version: 3.03.18, Driver version 7.07.03-fo

scsi1 : QLogic QLA2312 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 6 device 2 irq 3
Firmware version: 3.03.18, Driver version 7.07.03-fo

[Jun Yu · Accepted solution]

these information is not enough to identify if the HBA is "oemed" by HP.

1. visit hp.com-> driver download-> input name "FCA2214" -> choose linux -> choose right version and distribution-> download that driver approx. 9MB

2. put the tar.gz file into one directory of yoru linux system, tar zxvf it .

3. invoke ./INSTALL to install the driver

4. go to /opt/hp/qla2xxxxx, invoke adapter_info and probe_all or scan xxxxx, all the commands you need are there.

[Anthony Martin_1]

Hi Danesh,
The only real way to check if these are valid HP cards, is to shutdown the server, remove the HBA's and check for the following
1. Spare Part No 283384-001
2. Vendor Model Number - QLA2340

Cheers
Anthony