FibrChanl-01 (fcd) B.11.31.1209 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes

This document provides information about the B.11.31.1209 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.11.31.1209) 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.11.31.1209 version of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre
Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3:
• The fcd driver now supports up to 48 HPVM VFCs (virtual FC controllers) per one PFC (physical
FC controller).
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 September 2012 (AR1209) 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 September 2012 (AR1209) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
The fcd driver is now bundled with new Q-Logic firmware version 5.06.05, supported for 4Gb
and 8Gb Q-Logic FC HBAs. The firmware release note can be found at http://
filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/82446/release.pdf.
QXCR1001215918
Table 2 HP-UX April 2012 (WEB1204) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
This fixes the issue where fcd device special files are not created automatically in some rare cases
after loading the fcd driver module dynamically.
QXCR1000945642
This fixes the fcd driver init script for the issue of HPVM guest boot delays caused when there is
high number of stale IO nodes present.
QXCR1001198749
This modifies the fcd driver init script to remove the limitation of maximum 256 fcd device specific
files that can be created at boot time.
QXCR1001201543
Table 3 HP-UX March 2012 (WEB1203) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
Driver has been modified to handle FW timeout issue seen when ERASE command is issued to
tape drives. Maximum IO timeout value in driver has been increased from 0x1999 seconds to
0xFFFF seconds to be in compliance with the change in Q-Logic ISP 24xx FW specification.
QXCR1001192329
Warning message is updated for FC Mezzanine configured in Loop Topology.QXCR1001196129
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