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markc
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‎04-16-2007 08:21 AM

QLogic drivers downgrade problem.

I'm following KB article 1560391 to downgrade QLogic HBA drivers from 4Gb to 2Gb for SAN compat. I've removed the orig drivers rpm, installed the suggested drivers and modified esx.conf. I then run esxcfg-boot -b.

When the host reboots I get the following error

Initialisation for qla2300_7xx failed with error -19

Any ideas?

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bertdb
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎04-16-2007 09:23 AM

can you find any further info in /var/log/vmkernel ?

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markc
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‎04-16-2007 10:03 AM

Only this

Apr 16 17:01:49 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:21.878 cpu0:1024)Loading module qla2300_7xx ...

Apr 16 17:01:49 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:21.881 cpu0:1024)Mod: 217: Starting load for module: qla2300_7xx R/O length: 0x32000 R/W length: 0x5d000

Apr 16 17:01:49 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:26.232 cpu3:1037)Mod: 430: Module qla2300_7xx: initFunc: 0x819830 text: 0x7fd000 data: 0x1f0a888 bss: 0x1f63ba8

Apr 16 17:01:50 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:26.232 cpu3:1037)Mod: 446: mainHeap avail before: 13208984

Apr 16 17:01:50 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:26.232 cpu3:1037)linux_module_heap_init: Initial heap size : 1048576, max heap size: 35651584

Apr 16 17:01:50 esx1 vmkernel:

Apr 16 17:01:50 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:26.232 cpu3:1037)<6>qla2x00_set_info starts at address = 0x7fd314
Apr 16 17:01:50 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:26.232 cpu3:1037)ALERT: Mod: 490: Initialization for qla2300_7xx failed with -19.
Apr 16 17:01:50 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:26.232 cpu3:1037)Module failed to load with status -19.


Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:38.504 cpu0:1024)Loading module qla2300_7xx ...
Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:38.507 cpu0:1024)Mod: 217: Starting load for module: qla2300_7xx R/O length: 0x32000 R/W length: 0x5d000

Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:42.873 cpu3:1037)Mod: 430: Module qla2300_7xx: initFunc: 0x82b830 text: 0x80f000 data: 0x1f0f1d0 bss: 0x1f684f0

Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel:
Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:42.873 cpu3:1037)<6>qla2x00_set_info starts at address = 0x80f314

Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:42.873 cpu3:1037)ALERT: Mod: 490: Initialization for qla2300_7xx failed with -19.

Apr 16 17:01:53 esx1 vmkernel: 0:00:00:42.873 cpu3:1037)Module failed to load with status -19.

There's two QLA2422's in the server

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bertdb
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎04-17-2007 08:12 AM

can you get VMware support to find out whether your Qlogic firmware version is supported with the older driver ?

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