Emulex HBA LPFC Driver not loading for one of 2 PCI HBA's (LPe11000) in RHEL 5 system

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • There are TWO Emulex HBAs on this HP DL380 G5 Server.

  • One of the two Links (on PCI bus 17) looks like it's flapping (link down event).

  • dmesg shown below:

lpfc 0000:17:00.0: 1:1305 Link Down Event x14e2 received Data: x14e2 x20 x90114 x0 x0
lpfc 0000:17:00.0: 1:1303 Link Up Event x14e3 received Data: x14e3 x0 x10 x3 x0 x0 0
lpfc 0000:17:00.0: 1:1305 Link Down Event x14e4 received Data: x14e4 x20 x90114 x0 x0
lpfc 0000:17:00.0: 1:1303 Link Up Event x14e5 received Data: x14e5 x0 x10 x3 x0 x0 0

class: SCSI
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: lpfc
desc: "Emulex Corporation Zephyr LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter"
vendorId: 10df
deviceId: f0e5
subVendorId: 10df
subDeviceId: f0e5
pciType: 1
pcidom:    0
pcibus: 17
pcidev:  0
pcifn:  0

class: SCSI
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: lpfc
desc: "Emulex Corporation Zephyr LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter"
vendorId: 10df
deviceId: f0e5
subVendorId: 10df
subDeviceId: f0e5
pciType: 1
pcidom:    0
pcibus: 13
pcidev:  0
pcifn:  0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • Emulex HBA LPFC Driver
  • Veritas cluster service

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