HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Release Notes Manufacturing Part Number: J2635-90016 August 2003 U.S.A. © Copyright 2003 Hewlett Packard Development Company L.P.
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HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Announcement 1 HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Announcement This release note contains information pertaining to the A5158A driver provided with HP-UX 11.00 and 11i v1.0, 11i v1.5 and 11i v2.0.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes What’s New What’s New • 4 Support for OLAR and Interrupt Migration with HP-UX 11i V2.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Driver Versions Driver Versions The following table shows the driver versions for each release of the A5158A driver: Table 1-1 Release HP-UX 11.00 Application Release 0300 B.11.00.01 (32/64-bit) Application Release 0600 B.11.00.02 (32/64-bit) Web Release July 2000 B.11.00.03 (32/64-bit) Application Release 0900 B.11.00.04 (32/64-bit) 11i OE Release HP-UX 11i v1.0 B.11.00.05 (32/64-bit) Web Release February 2001 B.11.00.06 (32/64-bit) B.11.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Documentation Documentation Additional documentation, covering the A5158A and other HP Fibre Channel adapters, is available from the web at http://docs.hp.com under the Fibre Channel area of the Networking and Communications section. The HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide, available from the web, is the primary source of support documentation for HP Fibre Channel adapters.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11.00) Known Problems and Workarounds (11.00) 1. This problem concerns the HP Fibre Channel SNIA HBA API. Problem: When the HBA_OpenAdapter() API returns 0, it does not set the errno variable appropriately under the following scenarios: • When there is a file open error, the errno variable is not set to EACCES. • When the adapter for open is not available, the errno variable is not set to ENXIO.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11.00) Unable to map SF payload 4799 fcmsutil /dev/tdn devstat nport_id: Retries For Resources 35980 (retrying to obtain map resources) No resources for IO 27243 (number of times retries for mapping exhausted) Workaround or Fix: a. Use A5158A driver version B.11.00.04 (AP0900) or later. b. Do not install more than three (3) adapters in an EPIC/SAGA bus if one of the adapters is an A5158A adapter. 3.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11.00) PCI cards. The symptoms you are likely to see under these conditions are sluggish performance, especially when all (ten) PCI slots are used, or in the worst case, system panics. This behavior occurs because the default size of the I/O Page Directory (IOpdir) in the kernel is undersized for this configuration. Workaround or Fix: A patch is available that increases the default size of the IOpdir.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11.00) This message is related to the previous warning. You can ignore this message. The following messages are logged in the swremove.log file during swremove and swinstall. ERROR: Could not apply the software selection “Obsolete.NCSNCK,l=/,r=B.11.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP,fa=HP-UX_B.11.0 0_32/64”; it is not available from depot or root” This problem is being fixed in a later version of SD. You can ignore this message.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11i v1.0, v1.5, v2.0) Known Problems and Workarounds (11i v1.0, v1.5, v2.0) There are no listed problems/workarounds for HP-UX 11i v1.5 or v2.0. The following list is for HP-UX 11i v1.0 only. 1. Problem: During online replacement (OLR) of the A5158A adapter on Superdome systems, the replacement could fail if the adapter is connected to hub/switch/device.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11i v1.0, v1.5, v2.0) Workaround or Fix: The user application may set the errno value to 0 immediately before the call to HBA_OpenAdapter(). If the call returns 0, the application can verify if there is a change in the errno value. If the errno value remains 0, the API has not set the errno value due to any one of the above listed error scenarios.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds (11i v1.0, v1.5, v2.0) You may see the following SD (Software Distributor) warnings and errors when you install the A5158A software using swinstall. These messages are related only to SD. They do not apply to the A5158A Tachyon TL product. This problem will be fixed in a later version of SD. • During the swinstall step, the following warnings are logged in the swagent.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Software Requirements • HP-UX 11.00, 11i v1.0-v1.5 or 11i v2.0 • A5158A software driver • Tachyon patch PHKL_23939 or later (only for HP-UX 11.00) • Tachyon patch PHKL_23626 or later (only for HP-UX 11i v1.0) You can download the bundles from the HP Software Depot: http://www.software.hp.
HP A5158A Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages This product is available only in the English language.
