HowTo Check HBA Firmware & Driver Version Info Linux

FC HBA – Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapter which is used to connect SAN devices to servers. To allocate LUN(s)/storage space to server. In this  article i am going to show you Howto check HBA firmware & Driver Version Info Linux. Which are the details required to cross verify compatibility with SAN switch connectivity.

Check HBA Firmware & Driver Version Info Linux

The very first command is to verify whether we have HBA cards installed in your machine.

# lspci -nn | grep -i hba
04:00.0 Fibre Channel [0c04]: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA [1077:2532] (rev 02)
04:00.1 Fibre Channel [0c04]: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA [1077:2532] (rev 02)

Note: Highlighted in orange color or PCI slot numbers, remember we use them in this article

# ls -l /sys/class/fc_host
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Feb 19 23:44 host11
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Feb 19 23:44 host12

Check current used host number details using above command and note it down.

Now check it up Kernel driver name as shown below

# lspci -vvv -s 04:00.1 |grep -i "Kernel Driver"
 Kernel driver in use: qla2xxx

Get HBA Driver Info

Vendor details HowTo Check HBA Firmware & Driver Info in Linux

# lspci -k -s 04:00.0
04:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 02)
 Subsystem: QLogic Corp. Device 015d
 Kernel driver in use: qla2xxx
 Kernel modules: qla2xxx

Use modinfo command to get the version details

# modinfo qla2xxx | grep version
version: 8.03.07.15.05.09-k
srcversion: A40E0347B413757ECA197E44

Or

# systool -c scsi_host -v -d host11 | grep driver_version
 driver_version = "8.03.07.15.05.09-k"

Firmware Version Details

Host Bus Adapter firmware details can be achieved using below command

# systool -c scsi_host -v -d host11 | grep fw_version
 84xx_fw_version = ""
 fw_version = "5.06.03 (90d5)"
 optrom_fw_version = "8.01.02 32896"

You can also use scli command to get HBA firmware details

# scli -i | grep "Driver Firmware Version"
Driver Firmware Version : 5.06.03 (90d5)
Driver Firmware Version : 5.06.03 (90d5)

Single command get all Firmware, Driver and HBA Model details. HowTo Check HBA Firmware & Driver Info in Linux

# systool -a -v -c scsi_host host11 | egrep "Class Device|model|version|proc_name"
 Class Device = "host11"
 Class Device path = "/sys/class/scsi_host/host11"
 84xx_fw_version = ""
 driver_version = "8.03.07.15.05.09-k"
 fw_version = "5.06.03 (90d5)"
 model_desc = "PCI-Express Dual Channel 8Gb Fibre Channel HBA"
 model_name = "QLE2562"
 mpi_version = ""
 optrom_bios_version = "3.31"
 optrom_efi_version = "6.10"
 optrom_fcode_version= "0.00"
 optrom_fw_version = "8.01.02 32896"
 phy_version = ""
 proc_name = "<NULL>"

Conclusion

HowTo Check HBA Firmware & Driver Info in Linux is very simple using above commands. First identify which card details you would like to find they note there slot number details and hostN.

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