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This release includes changes to the following always-installed mass storage drivers. “Always-installed” means that the drivers are automatically installed during HP-UX installation.

NOTE: The HWEnable11i bundle, which is normally installed by default on the 11i OE media, provides the patches that are required for the installation of these mass storage bundles. When updating an existing 11i system, one can install the HWEnable11i bundle and the desired mass storage bundle from the OE media in the same install session to meet software dependencies.

In addition to currently supported cards, the swlist report may contain the product numbers of cards that have been “pre-enabled,” but have not been released yet.

For the most current information on supported I/O cards, see the set of Support Matrixes available on the I/O Cards and Networking Software Web page at http://www.docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html. At the top of the page, click the link for the card technology you are interested in, then scroll down to the Support Matrixes heading. If a support matrix for your card technology is unavailable, check the card’s user guide or release notes.

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

The HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel (td) driver manages the A6795A and A5158A PCI single-port host bus adapters (HBAs) that utilize the Tachyon TL/TS and XL2 chips respectively.

Summary of Change

The B.11.23.0706 version of FibrChanl-00 driver includes the following changes:

  • The td driver has been changed to report the event of a link going down when an FC cable is disconnected.

  • Changes have been made in the td driver to make sure that the diagnostic event #23 (Fibre Channel driver has gone into non-participating mode) with severity SERIOUS does not get reported erroneously by the EMS framework.

  • Allows non-root user processes to load the SNIA HBA API library.

  • Support has been added in SNIA API to display the Serial Number for an FC card.

  • The example program /opt/snia/demos/snia_demo.c has been modified to correctly display the port information for dual port FC HBAs.

  • Changes have been made in the td driver to make sure that the Fabric World Wide Name (WWN) for an HBA does not contain a stale value, when the topology of the HBA is changed from fabric to private loop.

  • Support for PA-RISC build has been added in the makefile /opt/snia/demos/makefile.demo.

  • Formerly, Base-VXVM logs error in /etc/rc.log due to presence of extraneous characters in the configuration file /etc/hba.conf. This has been corrected in this version of the td driver.

Impact

  • The event “Fibre Channel Driver received Link Dead Notification” will be logged by the td driver when an FC cable is disconnected.

  • In earlier versions of the td driver, the diagnostic event #23 (Fibre Channel driver has gone into non-participating mode) with severity SERIOUS would get reported by the EMS framework even when a Tachlite XL2 card is functional in fabric topology. This is corrected in the current version of the td driver.

  • An application that attempts to load the SNIA HBA API library as a non-root user will be able to load successfully.

  • Support is added in SNIA API to display the Serial Number for a FC card, obtained from the Vital Product Data (VPD) of the card.

  • The example program /opt/snia/demos/snia_demo.c now correctly displays the port information for dual port FC HBAs.

  • The Fabric WWN for an FC card gets cleared and shows up as 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 when fabric connection is removed and the card is connected to a storage device in private loop topology.

  • The makefile /opt/snia/demos/makefile.demo now support PA-RISC build.

  • Extraneous characters have been removed in the configuration file /etc/hba.conf to ensure that Base-VXVM does not log error in /etc/rc.log. The above changes/defects fixes are already available in HP-UX 11i v3.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

Complete Fibre Channel documentation is available on http://www.docs.hp.com (navigate to I/O Cards and Networking Software, then to Fibre Channel) or directly at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#Fibre%20Channel:

  • Support Guide: The HP Fibre Channel Support Guide includes an adapter overview, installation details, adapter configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance information, additional features, and regulatory information.

  • Installation Guide: Software and hardware installation information for specific HBAs.

  • Support Matrix: The Support Matrix includes a matrix of Fibre Channel adapters, supported hardware platforms, Operating Systems, Driver Bundle Versions, and minimum PDC/Firmware requirements.

  • White Paper: White Papers can also be found in this section.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

FibrChanl-01 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2)

FibrChanl-01 is the software bundle employed by Fibre Channel adapter cards using the fcd driver.

Summary of Change

FibrChanl-01 has been updated to incorporate defect fixes. For details, see the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Release Notes (11.23) (MPN J6374-90053), available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Fibre%20Channel.

Impact

There is no impact.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information, see the following documents, available on the Instant Information media and at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Fibre%20Channel:

  • FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Release Notes (11.11) (MPN J6374-90054)

  • FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Release Notes (11.23) (MPN J6374-90053)

  • HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide (MPN J6374-90055)

Information about supported cards can also be found in the support matrixes available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Fibre%20Channel.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

RAID-01

The RAID-01 bundle delivers the driver ciss for the A7143A, A9890A, A9891A and P400 controllers.

Summary of Change

The RAID-01 bundle has been updated with quality improvements and support for Instance Provider.

Impact

There are no impacts.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the RAID-01 (ciss) HP Smart Array Controller Driver Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the HP Smart Array RAID Controllers Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to Smart Array (RAID)).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

scsiU320-00

The scsiU320-00 bundle delivers the driver mpt for the A7173A and AB290A controllers.

Summary of Change

The scsiU320-00 bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

Impact

There are no impacts.

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no performance issues.

Documentation

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the HP-UX Ultra320 SCSI mpt Driver Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the HP Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to SCSI Host Bus Adapters).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

SerialSCSI-00

The SerialSCSI-00 bundle delivers the driver sasd.

The CommonIO bundle is currently a common library for SerialSCSI-00. It contains infrastructure components for SerialSCSI-00.

Summary of Change

The SerialSCSI-00 driver bundle has been updated with quality improvements, new HBA firmware, and support for Instance Provider.

The CommonIO bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

Impact

There are no impacts.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the HP SerialSCSI-00 (sasd) 8 Internal Port SAS Host Bus Adapter with RAID Driver Release Notes and HP Common IO Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the SAS Host Bus Adapters Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to SAS Host Bus Adapters).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

USB-00

The USB-00 product (C.01.04.03) delivers the USB subsystem and device drivers.

Summary of Change

USB-00, version C.01.04.03, contains defect fixes.

Impact

The USB experience should be of higher quality - with less problems.

Compatibility

This USB product will not be compatible with any application that accesses human interface devices (HID) through the legacy HID device special files in /dev/hid. Instead, applications should use the mouse and keyboard device special files provided in /dev/deviceFileSystem: /dev/deviceFileSystem/keyboardMux for keyboards attached to the USB and /dev/deviceFileSystem/mouseMux for mice attached to the USB.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information about the USB product, see the USB READMEs in /var/adm/sw/products.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.



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