FibrChanl-01 (fcd) B.11.23.0909 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Release Notes, Edition 4.0 (September 2009)

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FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass

Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 release

notes

Version Number B.11.23.1003.01

HP Part Number: 5991-0440

Published: March 2010

Edition: 7.0

Summary of content (12 pages)

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FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 release notes Version Number B.11.23.1003.01 HP Part Number: 5991-0440 Published: March 2010 Edition: 7.
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Table of Contents FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 Overview...........................5 New and Changed Features in This Release..........................................................................................5 Defect Fixes.............................................................................................................................................5 Driver Versions.....................................................................................
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List of Tables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 4 HP-UX 11i v2 March 2010 (WEB1003)Fixes....................................................................................5 HP-UX 11i v2 November 2009 Fixes...............................................................................................5 HP-UX 11i v2 September 2009 Fixes...............................................................................................5 HP-UX 11i v2 March 2009 Fixes....................................
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This document provides information about the B.11.23.1003.01 release of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2. FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 Overview This release of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 (version B.11.23.1003.01) provides fixes for defects listed in Table 1. New and Changed Features in This Release There are no new features with this release.
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Table 6 HP-UX 11i v2 September 2008 Fixes Defect ID Description QXCR1000824321 SNIA HBA Library API HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping() is taking longer time to obtain the FCP target mapping details if the hosts have many LUN's in NO_HW state. Fix has been done to ignore the LUN's in NO_HW state from further processing. QXCR1000818755 The sfp option is missing in fcddiag command. The sfp option which displays diagnostics information from the card optical transceiver is added to /opt/fcms/bin/fcddiag command.
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Table 11 HP-UX 11i v2 December 2006 Fixes (continued) Defect ID Description SR: 8606454863 Fixed a problem in which the fcd driver reports a “Mailbox 0x69 Timeout.” SR: 8606450588 Fixed a problem in which firmware sometimes fails to bring the link up after a cable disconnect / reconnect with 2 Gb fibre channel HBAs.
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Table 15 HP-UX 11i v2 March 2005 Fixes (continued) Defect ID Description SR: 8606381439 Enhancement Request of fcmsutil(1M) for the A6826A PCI-X Dual Port Fibre Channel adapter SR: 8606382677 Uncompressed Full Dump Save Failure SR: 8606389639 FC10 may not be detected on boot-up ioscan SR: 8606384254 Superdome running 11.
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Table 17 FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Driver Version History (continued) Release Revision November 2008 B.11.23.0811 September 2008 B.11.23.0809 July 2008 B.11.23.0807 March 2008 B.11.23.0803 December 2007 B.11.23.08.02 September 2007 B.11.23.08.01 April 2007 B.11.23.08 December 2006 B.11.23.07 September 2006 B.11.23.06 June 2006 B.11.23.05 (64-bit) December 2005 B.11.23.04.01 (64-bit) March 2005 B.11.23.03 (64-bit) September 2004 B.11.23.
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Primary bootpath: 0/0/10/1/0/4/0.8.0.255.0.7.0 Alternate bootpath: 0/0/10/1/0/4/0.8.0.255.0.0.0 This will set the primary and alternate bootpaths, but you will only be able to boot from the primary path. Corrective Action:The issue can be resolved by following one of the following scenarios: 1. 2. 3. • From the EFI shell: Manually issue the EFI shell command reconnect —r, before attempting to boot from the alternate path. Online: Use the HP-UX setboot command to swap the primary and alternate boot devices.
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Operating System and Version Compatibility The following software (or later versions) must be installed before installing the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) driver, version B.11.23.1003.01 into a system: • • • • • • • FibrChanl-00 (td) version B.11.23.03 or later (for HP-UX 11i v2 Update 3) Product number B6191AAE, OnlineDiag bundle version B.11.23.03.
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NOTE: vpd Display EFI driver and ROM firmware versions using fcmsutil EFI/firmware bundles can be downloaded from www.hp.com, in the Software and Driver Downloads section. Hardware Requirements This version of the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 runs on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers with the HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) operating system.