AB378B Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter Installation Guide, February 2007

Fibre Channel Adapter Installation for HP-UX

Installing Adapter Hardware

Chapter 1

NOTE See the system documentation for information about how to safely shut down your system and

obtain access to expansion slots.

To install the Fibre Channel adapter, follow these steps:

Step 1. Install all driver software and dependent patches.

Step 2. Shut down the system.

Step 3. Install the adapter in an available PCI-X slot.

Step 4. Attach fiber cabling to the adapter. All Fibre Channel host bus adapters that use the FCD driver

use a cable terminated with an LC connector.

Installing the Host Bus Adapter

Step 1. Access the system card bay

• If the system is running, enter this command to shut it down:

# shutdown -h

Enter y when prompted to continue.

• Wait for the system to shut down completely, and then power off the system by pressing the

system off button.

• Ensure that the system is grounded.

• Open the system to gain access to the PCI backplane.

• Insert the card into the highest-performance PCI-X slot available.

Step 2. Install the card

• Slide the adapter edge-connector into the PCI-X slot until it is fully seated.

• Secure the card and reassemble the system.