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StepDescription
1

Unload standard "lpfc" driver; to do that issue the following command:

# rmmod lpfc


2

Load "ppt_kgpsa.ko" driver; to do that issue the following command:

# insmod ppt_kgpsa.ko


3

Issue "dmesg" command and check that no error appeared during the driver loading, also check that the driver has found all KGPSA devices:.

(info) Example:

# dmesg | grep KGPSA; ls -la /dev/kgpsa*
Found KGPSA with VENDOR_ID=10DF DEVICE_ID=FE00
Found KGPSA with VENDOR_ID=10DF DEVICE_ID=FE00
crw-------. 1 root root 240, 0 Nov 28 17:47 /dev/kgpsa0
crw-------. 1 root root 240, 1 Nov 28 17:47 /dev/kgpsa1


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The CHARON-AXP FC Fabric presentation mode allows to use Linux FC HBA directly. When using this mode, there is no need to load KGPSA adapter(s) as it was described before. The following syntax has to be used instead:

Example:

load kgpsa_generic_storage PGA interface="host3"

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The list of the LUNs to be excluded. If empty (default), nothing is excluded.
(warning) No multi line is possible for this parameter; the maximum number of symbols inside the double quotes is 255. Use "lun_include" parameter instead if a lot of LUNs must be excluded to specify only the included LUNs.

Example:

load kgpsa_generic_storage PGA lun_exclude="6008-05F3-0005-2950-C758-BCC2-E88B-0007,6008-05F3-0005-2950-8B03-E26B-E231-0005"

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The list of the LUNs to be included. If empty (default), all LUNs are included.
(warning) No multi line is possible for this parameter; the maximum number of symbols inside the double quotes is 255. Use "lun_exclude" parameter instead if a lot of LUNs must be included to specify only the excluded LUNs.

Example:

load kgpsa_generic_storage PGA lun_include="6008-05F3-0005-2950-C758-BCC2-E88B-0007,6008-05F3-0005-2950-8B03-E26B-E231-0005"

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