HP-UX 11i December 2001 Release Notes

I/0 and Networking Cards
Network Drivers
Chapter 5
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Summary of Changes
• Boot support for the A6685A and A6685A HSC adapters on selected platforms will be
available later in 2001. For the latest information on boot support for these adapters
and other support information, see the web site mentioned above.
This version of the driver continues to support the following features:
• Fabric zoning and cascading
• Fabric boot and dump for supported platforms (PCI A5158A only)
• Supported configurations
— Arbitrated private loop
— Direct fabric attachment
— QuickLoop (translative mode)
— Public Loop
Documentation
For more information on supported Fabric topologies, see the HP Fibre Channel Fabric
Migration Guide located at http://docs.hp.com.
The following documents have been revised:
• HP Fibre Channel Fabric Migration Guide
• HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Manual
• fcmsutil (1M) man page
HP RAID 4Si Driver
updated for June
2001
HP RAID 4Si (A5856A) combines multiple small, inexpensive disks into an array that
appears as a single logical unit or drive. The data is distributed across the disks in order
to provide a method for data recovery or reconstruction in the event of a drive failure.
Summary of Changes
• Boot support (new feature)
— Ability to boot over the RAID controller.
— The customer can install the OS onto the logical drives configured on the RAID
controller.
— There is an option now in Ignite-UX called “Configure A5856A” which brings up
the configuration tool called IRM that helps in configuring logical drives.
• OLA/R (new feature)
— Ability to perform Online Addition/Replacement of the RAID controller.
— The customer can do an OLA/R of the RAID controller using SAM or the rad
command.
• New firmware revision (U.01.04) of the RAID controller includes the following new
features and fixes since earlier released version (U.01.01)
— Provides support for disk firmware download.