FibrChanl-01 (fcd) B.11.31.1203 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes

This document provides information about the B.11.31.1203 release of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd)
Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3.
FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3
overview
This release of the document for the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for
HP-UX 11i v3 (version B.11.31.1203) documents version changes and defect fixes.
New and changed features in this release
New features
There are no new features in this release.
Changed features
The following feature is changed with the B.11.31.1203 version of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre
Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3:
• FibrChanl-01 (fcd) driver now supports HBA Port and Node Symbolic names up to 255
characters in length (in compliance with FC-GS specification).
Known problems fixed in this version
The following issues have been fixed in the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver
for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 (AR1203) release. To view the entire details of each issue fix, refer
to the HP IT Resource Center at: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/home.do
Table 1 HP-UX March 2012 (AR1203) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
The fcd driver is modified to display port and node symbolic names for FlexFC ports.QXCR1001063170
This fixes an issue in the fcd driver which prevented link statistics from being retrieved using the
fcmsutil stat command.
QXCR1001134924
This fixes the fcd driver to log an appropriate diagnostic message when a previously lost FC
target device comes back online.
QXCR1001092583
This fixes fcmsutil to print correct SFP information or print appropriate error message for the
fcmsutil sfp command.
QXCR1001140465
Issue WARNING messages if FC Mezzanine is configured in loop.QXCR1001159905
Driver has been modified to handle the intermittent ioscan hangs seen in a bladed configuration
with Q-Logic FC cards due to infinite PLOGI retries to the Fabric Name Server. The PLOGI retry
count to the Name Server has been modified in the driver to a definite value.
QXCR1001169766
Table 2 HP-UX September 2011 (AR1109) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
This fixes a memory leak in the fcd driver that occurs after concurrent execution of certain fcmsutil
disable and ns_query_ports commands.
QXCR1001131764
fcmsutil output has been modified to display target symbolic port and node names as "None"
when respective symbolic name values are not returned by the targets.
QXCR1001068587
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