HP-UX 11i December 2003 Release Notes

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
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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
Ultra320 SCSI Adapter Driver (scsiU320-00 Driver Bundle)
The HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter fits in a single
PCI or PCI-X slot. Each of its two Ultra320 SCSI-3 connectors allows you to form a
channel by daisychaining up to 15 SCSI devices onto each connector for a total of 30 per
card.
new for December
2003
The December 2003 release of HP-UX 11i provides support for the HP A7173A PCI-X
Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter. The scsiU320-00 bundle is always
installed and provides the driver mpt.
When the A7173A is available, the driver (mpt) will also be available at
http://software.hp.com.
Documentation
For more information, including supported systems and HP-UX versions, see the HP
A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Support Guide at
http://docs.hp.com as well as the mptconfig and mptutil manpages.
HP RAID 4Si Driver
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.