HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI Driver

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.