Boot Camp 2.0: Cannot install Windows Vista with LSI Logic 4GB HBA Fibre Channel card
If you are trying to install Microsoft Windows Vista via Boot Camp 2.0 and you have an LSI Logic 4GB Host Bus Adaptor Fibre Channel card installed in your Mac, you may not be able to complete the installation.
We will be buying new Xeon E5-based servers for our datacenter and were wondering which Fibre Channel host bus adapters we should select for these. The choices are Emulex or QLogic (8Gb FC HBAs). Anybody have any recommendations on which is the better choice?
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Hi folks,
I had problems trying to install SCO OpenServer 6 on a PC with no floppy drive and a SATA CD drive.
Eventually after advice received on this forum last week, I adopted a different approach by fitting the LSI HBA RAID adapter and associated disks into an older PC that does have CD and... (4 Replies)
socal(7D) Devices socal(7D)NAME
socal - Serial Optical Controller for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (SOC+) device driver
SYNOPSIS
socal@sbus-slot,0
DESCRIPTION
The Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter is an SBus card which implements two full duplex Fibre Channel interfaces. Each Fibre Channel interface
can connect to a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL).
The socal device driver is a nexus driver and implements portions of the FC-2 and FC-4 layers of FC-AL.
FILES
/kernel/drv/socal ELF Kernel Module
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO sbus(4), sf(7D), ssd(7D)
Writing Device Drivers
ANSI X3.230-1994, Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface (FC-PH)
ANSI X3.272-1996, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA)
DIAGNOSTICS
The messages described below may appear on system console in addition to being logged.
On the console, these messages are preceded by:
socal%d: port %a
where %d is the instance number of the socal controller and %a is the port on the host adapter.
Fibre Channel Loop is ONLINE
The Fibre Channel loop is now online.
Fibre Channel Loop is OFFLINE
The Fibre Channel loop is now offline.
attach failed: device in slave-only slot.
Move soc+ card to another slot.
attach failed: bad soft state.
Driver did not attach, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to alloc xport struct.
Driver did not attach, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map eeprom
Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map XRAM
Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map registers
Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to access status register
Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to install interrupt handler
Driver was not able to add the interrupt routine to the kernel. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to access host adapter XRAM
Driver was unable to access device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to write host adapter XRAM
Driver was unable to write device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: read/write mismatch in XRAM
Driver was unable to verify device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
SunOS 5.10 9 May 1997 socal(7D)