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	    		            iSCSI Boot Option ROM for Windows
		           

					Version : 2.0.202
					Date    : 07/05/2011



Overview
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iSCSI boot Option ROM is used for booting computers over an Ethernet network using a network 
interface adapter including Chelsio's T3 based Network Interface Cards (NICs).

This package contains iSCSI based BIOS option ROMs and a chbootcli flash utility,which can be 
used to flash the iSCSI option ROM to Chelsio's T3 based Network Interface Cards.

Download iSCSI_option_rom_v2_0_202.zip.



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  CONTENTS
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-1. Requirements
-2. Supported Operating System
-3. Supported Cards
-4. How to Use
-5. Support Documentation
-6. Customer Support



1. Requirements
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- Chelsio - T3 10/1Gb adapter.



2. Supported Operating System
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- Windows 2008 SP2(32-bit)
- Windows 2008 SP2(64-bit)
- Windows 2008 R2
- Windows 2008 R2 SP1



3. Supported Cards
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- S302E
- S302E-C
- S310E-CR
- S310E-CR-C
- S310E-CXA
- S310E-SR+
- S310E-SR
- S310E-BT
- S320E-CR
- S320E-LP-CR
- S320E-CXA
- S320EM-BCH
- S320-SR-XFP
- N320E-G2-CR
- N320E
- N320E-CXA
- N320E-BT
- N310E
- N310E-CXA 



4. How to Use
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- unzip "iSCSI_option_rom_v2_0_202.zip".
- To flash iSCSI ROM execute chbootcli -u <hba> <Option ROM file path> command, where 
   <hba> is "Adapter Index" value from the "chbootcli -l" command.
   <Option ROM file path> is iSCSI_option_rom_v2_0_202/iboot<device_id of the card you want to 
   flash>.rom
- To erase iSCSI ROM from adapter use "chbootcli -e <hba> rom -f" command.

**NOTE: 
For the iscsi rom to work on Dell 2950 platforms, the expansion rom size has to be set to 29.
The ExpROMsize can be changed from ethtool utility only from Linux operating system.

To check the existing ExpROMsize, the command is:

# ethtool -e ethX offset 0x195B length 1

To change the ExpROMsize, the command is:

# ethtool -E ethX magic 0x38E2F10C offset 0x195B value 0x29


5. Support Documentation
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The documentation for this release can be found inside the iSCSI_option_rom_v2_0_202/docs folder. 
It contains:

- README
- Release Notes



6. Customer Support
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Please contact Chelsio support at support@chelsio.com for any issues regarding the product.








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