Ignite-UX Installation Booting

The following table shows the HBAs that are supported for native tape boot along with the

minimum EFI firmware driver revision.

Native Tape Boot by SCSI Model

Parallel SCSI Model Minimum Required

EFI firmware

Revision

A6828A (Single port

U160)

1.03.01.00

A6829A (Dual port

U160)

1.03.01.00

A7173A (Dual port

U320)

1.04.02.00

AB290A (U320 Gigabit

Ethernet combo)

1.04.02.00

The following table illustrates the tape drive capabilities of HP systems according to protocol.

Tape Drive Capabilities by Protocol

Native Tape Boot Two-Step Media

Recovery

Parallel SCSI Yes Yes

SAS Yes (see note 2) Yes (see note 1)

FC Yes (see note 2) Yes

Note 1: Requires HP-UX 11i v3 HWE0803 or later.

Note 2: Is available on HP Integrity 2 systems and requires HP-UX 11iv3 HWE1103 or later.