FibrChanl-00 HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver

The HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel (td) Driver manages the A5158A and A6795A PCI single port host bus adapters (HBAs) that utilize the Tachyon TL/TS and XL2 chips, respectively. It comes in the FibrChanl-00 bundle.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

The new features in HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel driver are as follows:

Support for the new mass storage stack. The Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel (td) Driver supports the new mass storage stack. For more information about the mass storage stack, see “Mass Storage Stack”.
Support for Agile addressing. The Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel (td) Driver now uses agile addressing to track an FC target, based on the unique port/node world-wide names (WWNs) of the target. Agile addressing simplifies the storage management by automatically dealing with changes in the SAN configuration.
Support for Soft Zoning. The Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel (td) Driver supports soft zoning in the fabric, based on WWN of the target port.
Support for PCI Online deletion (OLD). The Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel driver now supports online deletion of driver instances thereby facilitating online addition of any other type of HBA in the same PCI slot.
Support for PCI error detection and recovery. The Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel driver detects and recovers from PCI errors without manual intervention and system downtime..

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously described.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

FibrChanl-00 (td) HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007 (part no. J2635-90029) available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Fibre%20Channel

Obsolescence

Not applicable.