HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

I/0 and Networking Cards
Network Drivers (new at 11i original release)
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The driver is also available on the web and on the Application CD for the
Application Release June 2001. You can download the driver from the
web at http://software.hp.com.
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)