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The drivers of all of the following mass storage cards are
always installed with (or built into) each of the HP-UX 11i Operating
Environments. Table 7-3 Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers[1] Mass Storage Driver Bundle | Driver | Card Number | Description |
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FibrChanl-00 | fcT1
fcp
fcT1_cntl
td
fcparray | A5158A | PCI Tachyon TL Fibre Channel card | FibrChanl-00 | td
fcp
fcparray | A6684A | HSC Tachlite Fibre Channel card | FibrChanl-00 | td
fcp
fcparray | A6685A | HSC Tachlite Fibre Channel card | FibrChanl-00 | fcT1
fcp fcT1_cntl
td
fcparray | A6795A | PCI Tachyon XL2 Fibre Channel card | FibrChanl-01 | fcd | A6826A | PCI-X Dual Port 2 Gb/1 Gb Fibre Channel Adapter | FibrChanl-01 and GigEther-01 | | A9782A | PCI-X 2Gb Fibre Channel/1000Base-SX (Fiber) Combination
Card | FibrChanl-01 and GigEther-01 | | A9784A | PCI-X 2Gb Fibre Channel/1000Base-T (Copper)
Combination Card | RAID-00 | iop_drv | A5856A | PCI RAID 4Si controller | scsiU320-00 | mpt | A7173A | PCI-X 2-Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter |
Fibre
Channel fcd Driver | |
The FibrChanl-01 bundle contains the Fibre Channel (fcd) driver. FibrChanl-01 is always-installed in all Operating Environments. updated for December 2003With the December 2003 release, the Fibre Channel fcd driver now also supports the new A9782A and A9784A Fibre
Channel/Gigabit Ethernet Combo HBAs. The A9782A is a new 2-port
HBA with a 1 x optical Fibre Channel port and a 1 x optical Gigabit Ethernet
port. The A9784A is a new 2-port HBA with a 1 x optical Fibre Channel
port and a 1 x copper Gigabit Ethernet port. Support for the A9782A
and A9784A begins with fcd driver version B.11.11.02 in bundle FibrChanl-01. new for September 2003The fcd driver supports the Dual Port Fibre Channel adapter
A6826A, which is a dual port 2Gb-capable adapter that operates in
PCI 33MHz/66Mhz and PCI-X 66Mhz/100Mhz/133Mhz bus speeds with a
64-bit bus width. For more information on the A6826A Dual Port Fibre Channel
adapter, see the HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters
Support Guide located at http://www.docs.hp.com, under “Networking and Communications.” Fibre
Channel Tachlite Driver | |
new for December 2001Now available is the new 2Gb, single port Fibre Channel Host
Bus Adapter. The A6795A PCI Tachyon XL2 adapter operates at bus
speeds of up to 66 MHz with 64 bits bus width and can transfer data
at a 1Gb or 2Gb transfer rate. The adapter has auto-speed negotiation
that enables it to negotiate for the highest speed (1Gb or 2Gb)
that is common to the port and to the infrastructure connecting
the port. Using the fcmsutil diagnostic tool, you can display link speed and Vital
Product Data (VPD) information programmed on the adapter. The A6795A adapter operates on the following platforms running
HP-UX 11.00, 11i, or later Operating Environments: A400,
A500, L-class, N-class, and Superdome servers
The A6795A adapter will support all of the fabric topologies
currently supported by the existing Tachlite adapter. Boot support
for the first release will be only on the N- and L-class systems. As of
December 2001, the HP-UX 11i Fibre Channel driver version is B.11.11.09.
Although this driver is pre-installed with each of the HP-UX Operating Environments,
you can also obtain it from the December 2001 application release CD.
The Fibre Channel 11i driver is a common driver for the following
Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters: A5158A
PCI 1Gb Tachyon TL adapter A6684A HSC Tachlite adapter A6685A HSC Tachlite adapter A6795A PCI 2Gb Tachyon XL2
adapter
HP has created a new Fibre
Channel Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) Host Bus Adapter
(HBA) Application Programming Interface (API). The SNIA HBA API
is a C library interface that provides both a common HBA API library
for all HP-UX HBA vendors and a vendor-specific API library for
HP’s Tachyon/Tachlite Fibre Channel adapters. The API software
is part of the driver and is installed at the same time. The intended
users of this API are programmers who want to create applications
for managing SANs networks. As of December 2001, you
can use the HSC Tachlite adapters (A6684A and A6685A) on the following
additional platforms: The HSC Tachlite adapters (A6684A and A6685A) will also support
boot on K260, K360, K460, D390, R390, K370, K570, and K580. Changes have also been made
to the Fibre Channel online diagnostic tool, fcmsutil, to support the A6795A adapter. When you use the command,
fcmsutil/dev/tdx (where x is the number assigned to the adapter), the following
additional information will display: By using the command, fcmsutil/dev/tdx vpd, you can display Vital Product Data (VPD) information
on the adapter. This information includes the following: Miscellaneous information
Effective December 2001, the following documents (available
at http://docs.hp.com) have changed or have been added: Hewlett-Packard Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Manual HP Fib re Channel
Fabric Migration Guide HP FC SNIA HBA
API Programmer’s Guide (new)
updated for
September 2001The Tachlite driver enables the HSC Tachlite adapters (A6684A
and A6685A), used in the K-, R- and D-Class servers, to have the
same fabric capabilities as the PCI Tachlite adapter. For a current list of driver versions, go to the ITRC web
site, http://itrc.hp.com. Click navigate knowledge trees and response
center FAQs. After logging in (if necessary), scroll
to the Hardware area and navigate the links to networks/mass
storage connectivity/fibre channel/technical support.
Once you are on the Fibre Channel page, select the Tachlite driver
table in the “at a glance” box. Boot support
for the A6685A and A6685A HSC adapters on selected platforms will be
available later in 2001. For the latest information on boot support
for these adapters and other support information, see the web site
mentioned above.
This version of the driver continues to support the following
features: Fabric zoning
and cascading Fabric boot and dump for
supported platforms (PCI A5158A only) Supported configurations QuickLoop (translative mode)
For more information on supported Fabric topologies, see the HP
Fibre Channel Fabric Migration Guide located at http://docs.hp.com. The following documents have been revised: HP
Fibre Channel Fabric Migration Guide HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters
Manual
Ultra320
SCSI Adapter Driver (scsiU320-00 Driver Bundle) | |
The HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter
fits in a single PCI or PCI-X slot. Each of its two Ultra320 SCSI-3
connectors allows you to form a channel by daisychaining up to 15
SCSI devices onto each connector for a total of 30 per card. new for December 2003The December 2003 release of HP-UX 11i provides support for
the HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter.
The scsiU320-00 bundle is always installed and provides the driver mpt. When the A7173A is available, the driver (mpt) will also be available at http://software.hp.com. For more information, including supported systems and HP-UX
versions, see the HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320
SCSI Host Bus Adapter Support Guide at http://docs.hp.com as well as the mptconfig and mptutil manpages. HP
RAID 4Si Driver | |
HP RAID 4Si (A5856A) combines multiple small, inexpensive
disks into an array that appears as a single logical unit or drive.
The data is distributed across the disks in order to provide a method
for data recovery or reconstruction in the event of a drive failure. updated for March 2002A new firmware version (U.01.06) for the RAID 4Si controller
is available as a patch from the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC), at http://itrc.hp.com. This version supersedes the version (U.01.04) that
is currently shipping with the HP RAID 4Si software. As always we strongly recommend that
you upgrade to the latest firmware at your convenience. Boot support (new feature) Ability to boot over the RAID controller. The customer can install the OS onto the logical
drives configured on the RAID controller. There is an option now in Ignite-UX called “Configure
A5856A” which brings up the configuration tool called IRM
that helps in configuring logical drives.
OLA/R (new feature) Ability to perform Online Addition/Replacement
of the RAID controller. The customer can do an OLA/R of the RAID controller
using SAM or the rad command.
New firmware revision (U.01.04) of the RAID controller
includes the following new features and fixes since earlier released
version (U.01.01) Provides support for disk firmware
download. Provides capability to handle NVRAM vs. Disk mismatch
on replaced boot cards. Provides fix for a problem which causes logical
drives to become unavailable when a reconstruction is started from
IRM (for example, when changing RAID levels). Provides fix for I/O hang due to cache deadlock. Provides fix for the problem of HOTSPARE sometimes
not rebuilding when the disk that is part of the logical drive is
pulled out. The firmware image a5856a_01_04.img is present in the /opt/raid4Si/firmware directory on the system on which you install the RAID software.
A help text file, a5856a_u_01_04.txt, for installing the image is available in the same directory.
Diagnostic improvements You can now
make use of the new -v option of the irdiag command. Also, you can use the irdfd command to perform disk firmware downloads and the irconcheck command to perform consistency checks.
updated for June 2001For more information see the HP A5856A RAID 4Si
PCI 4-Channel Ultra2 SCSI Controller Installation and Administration
Guide at http://docs.hp.com and the following manpages: |
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