AB378A Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter Installation Guide, December 2005

Fibre Channel Adapter Installation
Important Patches and Updates
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• Verify the following product contents:
— Grounding wrist strap
— Fibre Channel driver software media (included with OS or application CD)
— Fibre Channel host bus adapter with an optical port protector attached (not included with
all adapters).
• Verify the cabling requirements:
— Cable map (optional)
— Fiber optic cable terminated with a duplex LC connector. Cable must be 50 or 62.5 micron
multimode cable.
NOTE Patches are available from http://www.software.hp.com
Important Patches and Updates
Review the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX Release Notes located at
docs.hp.com for the latest patch and dependency requirements.
Install all driver software and dependency patches before you install the adapter.
Installing Driver Software
NOTE Use the following instructions if the driver is provided on a CD-ROM. If the driver software is
downloaded, follow the instructions provided with that file. The driver software, FibrChanl-01,
may be downloaded from http://software.hp.com. The FibrChanl-01 bundle is also provided on
the Operating Environment media for 11i v2 or Application Release media for 11i v1.
Install all driver software and dependency patches before you install the adapter. See the FibrChanl-01 (fcd)
Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Release Notes available at: http://docs.hp.com for details.
To load the driver from a CD-ROM, do the following:
1. Log in as root.
2. Insert the CD-ROM.
3. Mount the CD-ROM using the command:
mount /dev/dsk/<cd_rom_dev_file> /<tmp_mnt>
4. Run the swinstall program to install the software. Enter the command: /usr/sbin/swinstall
This opens the Software Selection window and the Specify Source window.