Steps to enable via commandline following boot
- rmmod qla2300
- insmod qla2300 ql2xfailover=1
Steps to compile in qlogic driver failover and use more than 4G of ram on redhat 3.0.
tar -xvf qla2x00-v7.01.01-dist.tar
cd qlogic
edit qla_settings.h, make MPIO_SUPPORT 1 rather than 0
./drvrinstall
make all SMP=1
make all install
update /etc/modules.conf with these entries
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alias scsi_hostadapter0 qla2300_conf
alias scsi_hostadapter1 qla2300
alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2300_conf
alias scsi_hostadapter3 qla2300
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=128
options qla2300 ql2xfailover=1
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modprobe qla2300
mv /boot/initrd-2.4.21-20.ELhugemem.img /boot/initrd-2.4.21-20.ELhugemem.img.orig
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.4.21-20.ELhugemem.img 2.4.21-20.ELhugemem