HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

I/0 and Networking Cards

Network Drivers (new at 11i original release)

Chapter 5120

— Provides support for disk ﬁrmware download.

— Provides capability to handle NVRAM vs. Disk mismatch on

replaced boot cards.

— Provides ﬁx for a problem which causes logical drives to become

unavailable when a reconstruction is started from IRM (for

example, when changing RAID levels).

— Provides ﬁx for I/O hang due to cache deadlock.

— Provides ﬁx for the problem of HOTSPARE sometimes not

rebuilding when the disk that is part of the logical drive is pulled

out.

— The ﬁrmware image a5856a_01_04.img is present in the

/opt/raid4Si/firmware directory on the system on which you

install the RAID software. A help text ﬁle, a5856a_u_01_04.txt,

for installing the image is available in the same directory.

• Diagnostic improvements

— You can now make use of the new -v option of the irdiag

command. Also, you can use the irdfd command to perform disk

ﬁrmware downloads and the irconcheck command to perform

consistency checks.

Documentation

For more information see the HP A5856A RAID 4Si PCI 4-Channel

Ultra2 SCSI Controller Installation and Administration Guide at

http://docs.hp.com and the following manpages:

• irdfd (1M) (new)

• irconcheck (1M ) (new)

• irdisplay (1M) (revised)

• irmd (1M) (revised)

• irdiag (1M) (revised)

• irm (1M)

• i2outil (1M)