***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] link width problem of Qlogic 9024 unmanaged switch

Hal Rosenstock hal.rosenstock at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 13:22:14 PDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com> wrote:
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>> Thought you said they were both POLLING prior to reset.
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> Yes, they are. I don't know what "LDDS" stands for in the first place:)

Then what is in POLLING ? Are you referring to PortPhysicalState and
not LinkDownDefaultState (LDDS). I use LDDS because I tire of typing
the whole thing. It is a component (field) in PortInfo.

-- Hal

> Thanks!
> Yicheng Jia
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> Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com>
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> 04/16/2009 02:37 PM
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> Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <devel-ofed at morey-chaisemartin.com>,
> general at lists.openfabrics.org
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> Re: [ofa-general] link width problem of Qlogic 9024 unmanaged switch
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com> wrote:
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>>> Then they _should_ come back to INIT.
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>> No, they don't.
>>
>>> What does the local LDDS value say after reset ? Any way to get the
>>> switch port LDDS value ?
>>
>> How can I check the LDDS value?
>                                  ^^^^^^
>                        LinkDownDefaultState
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> Thought you said they were both POLLING prior to reset.
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> -- Hal
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>> Yicheng Jia
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>> Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com>
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>> 04/16/2009 02:21 PM
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>> To
>> Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com>
>> cc
>> Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <devel-ofed at morey-chaisemartin.com>,
>> general at lists.openfabrics.org
>> Subject
>> Re: [ofa-general] link width problem of Qlogic 9024 unmanaged switch
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>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com> wrote:
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>>> They both are POLLING before "reset".
>>
>> Then they _should_ come back to INIT.
>>
>> What does the local LDDS value say after reset ? Any way to get the
>> switch port LDDS value ?
>>
>> -- Hal
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Yicheng Jia
>>>
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>>> Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com>
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>>> 04/16/2009 01:53 PM
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>>> To
>>> Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com>
>>> cc
>>> Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <devel-ofed at morey-chaisemartin.com>,
>>> general at lists.openfabrics.org
>>> Subject
>>> Re: [ofa-general] link width problem of Qlogic 9024 unmanaged switch
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>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Nicolas,
>>>>
>>>> After this "reset" command, both ports are DOWN forever, I can only get
>>>> portinfo from local port.
>>>>
>>>> I am sure that the port that has been reset is not the local port,
>>>> otherwise
>>>> it will prompt "node type not switch" error.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to enable this switch port from another port and brought it to
>>>> POLLING state, but as long as I use "reset", both ports are DOWN.
>>>
>>> What are the peer port's LinkDownDefaultStates ? Sounds like one or
>>> more must be Sleeping rather than Polling for some reason.
>>>
>>> -- Hal
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Yicheng Jia
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <devel-ofed at morey-chaisemartin.com>
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>>>> 04/16/2009 12:43 AM
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>>>> To
>>>> Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com>
>>>> cc
>>>> general at lists.openfabrics.org
>>>> Subject
>>>> Re: [ofa-general] link width problem of Qlogic 9024 unmanaged switch
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>>>> By any chances have you not reset the port you're on?
>>>> Have you tried using another node to enable the port again?
>>>>
>>>> Nicolas
>>>>
>>>> Le 16/04/2009 00:45, Yicheng Jia a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Randy,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to run "ibportstate reset" to reset the switch port on the
>>>>> other side in order to get 4x link. However I get the following error:
>>>>> ibwarn: [19660] mad_rpc: _do_madrpc failed; dport (Lid 7)
>>>>> ibportstate: iberror: failed: smp set portinfo failed
>>>>>
>>>>> And the port status change to DOWN after this. Have you ever tried to
>>>>> run "ibportstate" to reset the switch port?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Yicheng Jia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:39:54 -0600
>>>>> From: Randy Halverson <randy.halverson at qlogic.com>
>>>>> Subject: [ofa-general] link width problem of Qlogic 9024 unmanaged
>>>>> switch
>>>>> To: "'general at lists.openfabrics.org'" <general at lists.openfabrics.org>
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>>>>> Hello Yicheng,
>>>>>
>>>>> After checking internally, this appears to be a known problem with
>>>>> older
>>>>> firmware for the 9024FC switches.
>>>>>
>>>>> It appears that you or another person at 'tmriusa.com' has recently
>>>>> opened a case with QLogic Tech Support for this issue. Please continue
>>>>> to work with QLogic Tech Support on firmware upgrade resolution since
>>>>> you probably don't have our FastFabric Tools to manage the 9024FC
>>>>> switches..
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy
>>>>> Technical Support
>>>>> QLogic Corporation
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