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HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI Driver

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The HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI driver manages the A6828A and A6829A Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) single and dual port Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

The Ultra160 SCSI driver, c8xx, is delivered in the core bundle HPUXMinRuntime.

Summary of Change

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

  • Support for the new mass storage stack. The Ultra160 SCSI driver supports the new mass storage stack. For more information about the mass storage stack, see “Mass Storage Stack”.

  • Support for PCI OnLine Deletion (OLD). The Ultra160 SCSI driver facilitates online replacement of an Ultra160 SCSI HBA with any other type of HBA in the same PCI slot. For more information about PCI OLD, see “PCI Card Online Deletion (OLD)”.

  • Support for PCI error detection and recovery. The Ultra160 SCSI driver detects and troubleshoots PCI errors without manual intervention and system downtime.

  • Support for HBA Device Special Files (DSF). The Ultra160 SCSI driver supports Device Special Files for individual HBAs with the naming convention /dev/c8xx<instance>, where <instance> represents the instance number of the HBA. On these DSFs, the following existing IOCTLs are supported: SIOC_GET_BUS_PARMS, SIOC_GET_BUS_LIMITS, SIOC_RESET_BUS, SIOC_SET_TGT_LIMITS, and SIOC_SET_BUS_LIMITS. The following new IOCTLs are supported on these DSFs: PSIOC_GET_TGT_PARMS, PSIOC_GET_TGT_LIMITS, PSIOC_RESET_DEV, and PDIOC_RSTCLR.

  • Termination of support for Ultra2 HBAs. An exception is when Ultra2 cards (A5149A, A5150A) are part of the core I/O on a system. On such systems, boot, data, and dump are supported on these cards.

  • The following cards are supported for the sake of being core I/O.

    • These cards should never be added on to a system:

      • A4800A FWD SCSI

      • A5150A 2-port Ultra2 SCSI

      • A5159A 2-port FWD SCSI

      • A5159B 2-port FWD SCSI

      • A5838A 2-port Ultra2-SCSI + 2port 100T

    • The following cards can be core I/O or can be add-ons:

      • A6828A Single port Ultra160 SCSI

      • A6829A 2-port Ultra160 SCSI.

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

New and improved command improves usability.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

Manpages:

Documents:

Obsolescence

From this release onwards, the Ultra160 SCSI driver does not support Ultra2 cards.

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