FibrChanl-01 (fcd) B.11.31.1209.01 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes

This document provides information about the B.11.31.1209.01 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.11.31.1209.01) 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 (AR1209.01) 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 (WEB1209) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
A limited number of AH401A HBA ports with EDC code A-4832 are not getting claimed by
1103 or newer fcd driver. Also storage is not seen though these ports during installation of 1103
or newer install kernel.
QXCR1001230982
This fixes an issue in SNIA library calls where close(2) is not invoked on the opened Fibre Channel
device file descriptors before SNIA library call returns to the invoker, thereby leaking file
descriptors.
QXCR1001226660
Table 2 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 3 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
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