Q-Logic IB0056101-00 G Computer Drive User Manual


 
IB0056101-00 G Page v
QLogic HCA and InfiniPath
®
Software Install Guide
Version 2.2
A
Starting and Stopping the InfiniPath Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
Rebuilding or Reinstalling Drivers After a Kernel Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
Rebuilding or Reinstalling Drivers if a Different Kernel is Installed. . . . . . . . 5-29
Further Information on Configuring and Loading Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
LED Link and Data Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
Adapter Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30
Customer Acceptance Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-31
Removing Software Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
Uninstalling InfiniPath and OpenFabrics RPMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
Uninstalling OFED 1.3 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
Downgrading RPMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
Additional Installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
Installing Lustre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
Installing QLogic MPI in an Alternate Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
Installing on an Unsupported Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35
Managing and Installing Software Using Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36
Installing Rocks and InfiniPath RPMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
Further Information on Rocks and kickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41
A Installation Troubleshooting
Hardware Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Node Spontaneously Reboots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Some HTX Motherboards May Need Two or More CPUs in Use . . . . A-1
BIOS Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
MTRR Mapping and Write Combining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Edit BIOS Settings to Fix MTRR Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Use the ipath_mtrr Script to Fix MTRR Issues . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Issue with Supermicro® H8DCE-HTe and QHT7040 . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Software Installation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Version Number Conflict with opensm-* on RHEL5 Systems. . . . . . . . . . . A-4
OpenFabrics Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
OpenFabrics Library Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Missing Kernel RPM Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
Resolving Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6
mpirun Installation Requires 32-bit Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6
ifup on ipath_ether on SLES 10 Reports "unknown device" . . . . A-7
Lockable Memory Error on Initial Installation of InfiniPath. . . . . . . . . . A-7