FibrChanl-01 (fcd) B.11.31.1303 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes

Table 3 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 4 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 5 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
Table 6 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 7 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
Table 8 HP-UX May 2011 (WEB1105) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
This fixes an issue in Qlogic 8Gb FC Firmware that enables it to use correct slot-specific SerDes
settings for the 8Gb PCIe Dual Port Mezzanine Fibre Channel Adapter.
QXCR1001123656
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