AB378A Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter Installation Guide, December 2006

Fibre Channel Adapter Installation for HP-UX

Important Patches and Updates

Chapter 1

• Verify that you have the following items:

— Grounding wrist strap

— Fibre Channel driver software media (included with the OS or application CD)

— Fibre Channel host bus adapter with an optical port protector attached (not included with

all adapters)

• Verify that you have the following cabling items:

— Fiber optic cable terminated with a duplex LC connector.

— Cable map (optional)

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.

NOTE Patches are available from http://www.software.hp.com

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 or Application Release media for HP-UX 11i v2.

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:

Step 1. Log in to the system as root.

Step 2. Insert the CD into the CD drive.

Step 3. Mount the CD using the following command:

mount /dev/dsk/<cd_rom_dev_file> /<tmp_mnt>

Step 4. Run swinstall to install the software. Enter the following command:

/usr/sbin/swinstall

The Software Selection window and the Specify Source window open.

Step 5. In the Specify Source window, change the Source Host Name if necessary. Enter the mount point of

the drive in the Source Depot Path field and click OK to return to the Software Selection window.

Click Help to get more information.