FibrChanl-01 (fcd) B.11.23.0811 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Release Notes, Edition 3.0 (November 2008)

This document provides information about the B.11.23.0811 release of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd)
Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2.
FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2
Overview
This release of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2
(version B.11.23.0811) provides fixes for defects listed in Table 1.
New and Changed Features in This Release
There are no new features with this release.
Defect Fixes
The following section lists the defects fixed in the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage
Driver for HP-UX 11i v2. Each table describes the defects fixed for a release. To view the entire
details of each defect fix, refer to the HP IT Resource Center at: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/
forums/home.do
Table 1 HP-UX 11i v2 November 2008 Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
The call to SNIA API HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping()from within an application creates
defunct processes i.e. processes do not get terminated when application terminates. This
has been fixed in 11i v2, in SNIA vendor library for FCD driver.
QXCR1000862281
Table 2 HP-UX 11i v2 September 2008 Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
SNIA HBA Library API HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping() is taking longer time to obtain
the FCP target mapping details if the hosts have many LUN's in NO_HW state. Fix has been
done to ignore the LUN's in NO_HW state from further processing.
QXCR1000824321
The sfp option is missing in fcddiag command. The sfp option which displays diagnostics
information from the card optical transceiver is added to /opt/fcms/bin/fcddiag
command.
QXCR1000818755
Table 3 HP-UX 11i v2 July 2008 Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
SNIA HBA Library API HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping() is taking longer time to obtain
the FCP target mapping details if the hosts have many LUN's in NO_HW state. Fix has been
done to ignore the LUN's in NO_HW state from further processing.
QXCR1000824321
Table 4 HP-UX 11i v2 December 2007 Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
fcd driver fails HBA initialization, when WEL bit is set in the NVRAM status register.CR: JAGag48556
Fixed an out-of-bounds array reference in the fcd SNIA library that caused core dumps.
Fixed an infinite loop condition in the fcd SNIA library.
CR: JAGag41528
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