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The following table lists mass storage drivers that are automatically installed. For more details about changes to these drivers, see the remainder of this section.

Table 4-3 Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers

Mass Storage Driver Bundle

Driver

Card Number

Description

FibrChanl-00[1]

td

A6685A

HSC Tachlite Fibre Channel Adapter

FibrChanl-00[1]

td

A6795A

PCI Tachyon XL2 Adapter card

FibrChanl-01[1]

fcd

A6826A

PCI-X Dual Port 2 Gb/1 Gb Fibre Channel Adapter

FibrChanl-01[1]

fcd

AB378A

PCI-X Single Port 1Gb/2Gb/4 Gb Fibre Channel Adapter

FibrChanl-01[1]

fcd

AB379A

(to be released)

FibrChanl-01[1] and GigEther-01

fcd and igelan

A9782A

PCI-X 2Gb Fibre Channel/1000Base-SX (Fiber) Combination Card

FibrChanl-01[1] and GigEther-01

fcd and igelan

A9784A

PCI-X 2Gb Fibre Channel/1000Base-T (Copper) Combination Card

FibrChanl-01[1] and GigEther-01

fcd and igelan

AB465A

PCI-X Multifunction 2-Port 2Gb FC / 2-Port 1000Base-T Adapter

RAID-01

ciss

A7143A

RAID160 SA SCSI Controller

RAID-01

ciss

A9890A

Smart Array 6402 Controller

RAID-01

ciss

A9891A

Smart Array 6404 Controller

scsiU160-00 and GigEther-01

mpt and igelan

A6794A

PCI Gigabit Ethernet Base-T/Ultra 160 SCSI Combo Card

scsiU320-00

mpt

A7173A

PCI-X 2-Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter

[1] HP-UX Fibre Channel HBAs require that the Fibre Channel SAN maintains and guaranteesin-order delivery of frames. This is typically achieved by setting the in-order delivery option to truein one of the Fibre Channel switch configuration parameters. All the switches in the SAN shouldhave in-order delivery option to be true. Consult the appropriate Fibre Channel switchconfiguration guide for details.

 

NOTE: The HWEnable11i bundle, which is normally installed by default on the 11i OE media, provides the patches that are required for the installation of these mass storage bundles. When updating an existing 11i system, one can install the HWEnable11i bundle and the desired mass storage bundle from the OE media in the same install session to meet software dependencies.

In addition to currently supported cards, the swlist report may contain the product numbers of cards that have been “pre-enabled,” but have not been released yet.

scsiU320-00

The scsiU320-00 bundle delivers the driver mpt, for the A7173A card.

Summary of Change

The scsiU320-00 bundle containing the mpt driver has been updated to version B.11.23.0603 with disablement of Quick Arbitration and Selection (QAS), significantly reducing the occurrence of any SCSI-related issues seen in a mixed speed disk configuration. Review support documentation for details (see the following “Documentation” section).

Impact

Customers using mixed speed disk configurations may notice a small decrease in overall performance. HP highly recommends not mixing Ultra160 and Ultra320 disks in the same SCSI configuration.

Compatibility

HP highly recommends not mixing Ultra160 and Ultra320 disks in the same SCSI configuration.

Performance

Customers using mixed speed disk configurations may notice a very small decrease in overall performance. HP highly recommends not mixing Ultra160 and Ultra320 disks in the same SCSI configuration.

Documentation

When new cards are available, documentation will be made available at http://docs.hp.com (Click I/O Cards and Networking Software, then SCSI Host Bus Adapters.) Documentation includes the following:

  • HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Support Guide

  • HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Installation Guide

  • HP-UX Ultra320 SCSI mpt Driver Release Notes - Revision B.11.11.02

  • HP-UX A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix

  • HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Performance White Paper for HP PA-RISC Servers

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

USB-00

The USB-00 product, version C.01.03.01, delivers a USB infrastructure and driver package to support keyboards, mice, and HP DVD boot for the HP BladeSystems.

Summary of Change

USB-00, version C.01.03.01, includes various quality improvements from previous releases, a dynamically managed device file system, and USB mass storage encryption support.

Impact

USB-00 delivers a new subsystem for dynamically managing USB device special files. The Device File System is not enabled by default, but you can optionally enable it by referring to product documentation (see the following “Documentation” section).

USB-00 also delivers a utility to encrypt USB mass storage devices, usbencrypt(1), that allows the user to control access to a USB device. For more information, please refer to the usbencrypt(1) manpage.

Compatibility

This USB product will not be compatible with any application that accesses human interface devices (HID) through the legacy HID device special files in /dev/hid. The device special files for USB-00 are located in /dev/deviceFileSystem. For more information please refer to the HP-UX Device File System User’s Guide, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/7407/DevFSUsersGuide.pdf.

Performance

There is no performance impact.

Documentation

For further information, refer to the following documentation:

Obsolescence

Not applicable.



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