
Apple Fibre Channel Integration
TROUBLESHOOTING CHECKLIST
Power
• Alltapelibrariesandotherdevicesshouldbepoweredonbeforethehost.
• TheFiberChannelSwitchshouldbepoweredonrst,ifincludedwiththetopology,followedbythe
TapeLibrary,thenbytheHost.
Device Discovery
• EnsureAllHostAdapterandSwitchLinkLightStatusiscorrectfortheconnection.Refertothe
HBAorSwitchhardwareguideforspecics.
• IfadevicediscoveryinSystemProlerorsoftwareisnotsuccessfulafterarestartoftheserver
thanunplugandre-plugthemissingdevicecable.
• Userscanverifyalllinkcharacteristicswiththe“ioreg”consolecommand.
ioreg-w0-cAppleLSIFusionFC|grep“ControllerCharacteristics”
• UserscanMonitorFibreChannelActivitywiththe“tail”terminalcommand.
tail-f/var/log/systems.log
For All Topologies
• AlwaysuseHBAPort0forsingleTapedrivesindirectattachedsetups.
• AlwaysuseHBAport0forconnectingtheswitchservingtheLibraryandTapeDrives.
• Indirectattachedcongurations,settingtheHBAtoautomaticspeedandtopologynegotiationis
supported.
Setup Recommendations
• AlwaysusePort0forasingletapedriveinadirectattachedsetup.
• Verifyalllinkcharacteristicswiththe“ioreg”consolecommand:
ioreg -w 0 -c AppleLSIFusionFC | grep “Controller Characteristics”
“Controller Characteristics” = {“Port
Number”=0,”Port Speed”=”Automatic (2 Gigabit)”,”Port World Wide
Name”=<100000062b06c27c>,”Product Name”=”LSI7202P”,”Vendor
Name”=”LSILogic”,”Address Identifier”=<000a01>,”Fibre Channel Cabling
Type”=”Fiber Optic”,”Product Revision Level”=”Firmware 0.0.0, Fcode
1.00.29”,”Slot”=”SLOT-C”,”Node World Wide
Name”=<200000062b06c27c>,”Port Topology”=”Automatic (N_Port)”,”Port
Status”=”Link Established”}
> | | | “Controller Characteristics” = {“Port
Number”=1,”Port Speed”=”Automatic”,”Port World Wide
Name”=<100000062b06c27d>,”Product Name”=”LSI7202P”,”Vendor
Name”=”LSILogic”,”Product Revision Level”=”Firmware 0.0.0, Fcode
1.00.29”,”Slot”=”SLOT-C”,”Node World Wide
Name”=<200000062b06c27d>,”Port Topology”=”Automatic”,”Port Status”=”No
Link Established”}
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