HP-UX 11i September 2002 Release Notes

I/0 and Networking Cards
Network Drivers
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— 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.
— 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)
HyperFabric2 PCI Fiber Adapter
HyperFabric is a high-speed network link that runs on various HP servers and
workstations. HyperFabric supports the IP network protocol stack, including TCP/IP,
UDP/IP, and NFS. HyperFabric also supports HP’s Hyper Messaging Protocol (HMP).
updated for
September 2002
• The A6386A HyperFabric2 PCI fiber adapter is now supported on HP-UX 11i on the
following HP systems:
— rp5430, rp5450, rp5470, rp7400, rp7410, and rp8400
• The HSC HyperFabric adapter card for K-Class systems (part number A4920A) has
been discontinued.