A5814A-003 SCSI-FC Fabric Router with Firmware Information

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A5814A (option #3) SCSI-FC fabric router
The router comes in two flavors, the older SCSI-FC distancing router that bridges the distance
between a SCSI HBA and a SCSI peripheral, such as a HASS (now obsolete high availability
storage enclosure Jamaica cabinet) and the latest SCSI-FC Fabric Router.
The fabric version of the router must be ordered as product A5814 with option #003. If you
don’t order it this way you will receive the older router that is not upgradeable to the fabric
router.
The fabric router allows customers who choose to continue using the MPE/iX K-
Class systems
a connectivity solution to HP’s newest high availability storage arrays, such as the VA7100,
VA7110, XP128 and HP
’s fastest and largest enterprise storage solution, the HP SureStore E
Storage Array XP1024 which all require fibre channel connections.
firmware information
The router comes in two flavors that are NOT interchangeable or upgradeable from one
version to the other.
scsi-fc fabric router
SCSI-FC Fabric router’s latest version 8.01.0C corrects a problem found when the router is
introduced to a SAN where native FC MPE/iX or HP-UX HBA’s are present.
Problem: When the router is powered up, it will interrogate the SAN looking for server FC HBA
for the router to logon so that the router can notify all “viewable”
server HBAs of its presence. If
an FC server HBA fails to allow a logon within the FC specification time limit the router will
hang and flash an error with its status lights.
Fix: The 8.01.0C version of firmware allows for a timeout of a SAN logon and will proceed with
its normal behavior. HP-UX FC and the port to MPE/iX are the only operating systems to
cause the router hang in this environment.
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