AB378A Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter Installation Guide, December 2005

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1 Fibre Channel Adapter Installation
This chapter contains installation prerequisites, guidelines, and procedures for each host bus adapter.
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If you are installing an HP I/O card as an add-in device, please review this document before attempting
installation.
If this card was factory installed in your server, you can skip to the Verifying Installation section.
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1. Within the “Internet & Networking” category select “I/O Cards and Networking Software”
2. select “Fibre Channel”
3. Click on the Fibre Channel documentation product.
Supported Configurations
Verify compliance with the supported configurations listed in the HP Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
Support Matrix, available at: http://www.docs.hp.com.
Superdome Installation
If the adapter is installed in a Superdome system, contact your HP representative for installation assistance.
Adapters in other systems can be installed or replaced by customers or qualified Hewlett-Packard service
representatives.
Installation Prerequisites
Before beginning the installation procedure, complete the following steps:
Step 1. Verify compliance with supported configurations using the HP Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
Support Matrix.
Step 2. Check the following conditions.
• Verify that the /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin directories are in the PATH by invoking the
following command:
echo $PATH