Mass Storage Drivers

New SCSI Drivers

For the rx9610 and rx4610 servers, two new SCSI HBA drivers, qlisp and c8xx, are released in HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 (B.11.20). The c8xx driver runs on all IPF systems and replaces the c720 HBA driver on PA systems. The qlisp HBA driver is a new driver to support the 12160 Qlogic SCSI controller.

The c8xx HBA driver supports both the A5150A, Dual Channel Ultra2 SCSI, and the A5159A, Dual Channel FWD SCSI-2, add-in PCI cards.

The qlisp HBA driver supports the core Qlogic SCSI controller.

There is no early dump support in HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 (B.11.20). Unlike PA systems, on IPF based systems, it is not possible to get a crash dump before the system is booted. For more information, see System Crash Dump Changes in Chapter 3 of the HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 Release Notes, "HP-UX Features."

Tachlite Driver

For the rx9610 and rx4610 servers, this release includes td, the Fibre Channel PCI Tachyon TL driver. This version of the driver supports Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) only. Fabric is not supported in this release.

The IPF platforms supported by this driver are:

For a complete list of supported platforms and devices as well as other up-to-date information, see the Fibre Channel web site at http://techsolutions.hp.com.