SerialSCSI-00 (sasd) B.11.31.1209 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3

1 SerialSCSI-00 (sasd) overview
The SerialSCSI-00 bundle contains the sasd driver for the AH303A PCIe SC44Ge SAS Host Bus
Adapter, and the core-only HP 8 Internal Port SAS Controller and HP Multi Port Internal SAS
Controller. The sasd driver is always installed.
2 New and changed features in this release
2.1 New features
There are no new features included in SerialSCSI-00 at the time of this publication.
2.2 Changed features
There are no changed features included in SerialSCSI-00 at the time of this publication.
3 Problems fixed in this version
Table 1 HP-UX 11i v3 September 2012 fixes — SerialSCSI-00 B.11.31.1209
DescriptionSR number
SAS driver dependency is not correct for several versions of SASD driversQXCR1001221986
Table 2 HP-UX 11i v3 September 2012 fixes — SerialSCSI-00 B.11.31.1203
DescriptionSR number
Added additional statistics display in sasmgr(1M) for some failure conditions.QXCR1001186067
Problems fixed in recent versions
Table 3 HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Fixes — SerialSCSI-00 B.11.31.1103
DescriptionSR number
The sasmgr command returns EBUSY while querying for RAID information when a disk that
is part of a RAID array goes bad.
QXCR1001087125
The sasmgr command allows firmware upgrade while I/O operations are outstanding.QXCR1000878528
4 Known problems and limitations
This section provides a list of problems and limitations known to HP when these release notes were
published. If workarounds are available, they are included.
4.1 HP 8 Internal Port SAS Controller and HP Multi-Port Internal SAS Controller
• Updating the adapter firmware to version 1.23.33 or later might change the target ID of disk
devices.
This occurs on HP Integrity rx2660, rx3600, and rx6600 servers when an Integrated RAID
volume is configured on the controller and you perform one of the following actions:
◦ Update the adapter firmware offline using sasflash.efi.
◦ Boot to an HP-UX or Ignite-UX disk containing the sasd driver from one of the following
releases, which download firmware version 1.23.33 to the adapter during boot:
– B.11.23.0712
– B.11.31.0712
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