HP-UX 11i v1 Installation and Update Guide, September 2005

Known Problems and Troubleshooting
Problems Configuring HP-UX 11i v1
Appendix B162
Hardware Information Not
Captured on Systems with
Floppy Drive
On systems with a floppy-disk drive attached, hardware
information will not be captured in the System
Configuration Repository (SCR) under HP-UX 11i.
After updating a system with a floppy drive from 10.20
to 11i, you will find a core file in /usr/dmi/bin, and
hpuxci (HP-UX DMI Component Instrumentation) will
not be running.
This problem affects you if there is a floppy drive
attached to (or installed in) your system, and you use
the System Configuration Repository (SCR) to store
hardware information. Since the hpuxci is not running,
hardware information will not be captured. The
problem occurs if /dev/floppy exists.
A fix for the problem will be made available in the
earliest follow-up patch release for 11i. In the
meantime, if you depend on the SCR, you should either
not update to 11i, or remove the floppy drive.
NOTE: If /dev/floppy exists, hpuxci sets default
attributes for the device. The code that does this does
not null-terminate the string passed to atoi() which
results in a segfault (segmentation fault). The fix for
this will terminate the string correctly.
Auto-Port Aggregation Will Not
Work on rp7410 Systems
The igelan driver for core rp2710 cards does not
support Auto-Port Aggregation (APA).
To fix this problem install patch PHNE_25833 (or any
patch that supersedes it).
EISA Cards Not Supported on
64-bit OS
EISA I/O drivers for TermIO, FDDI, 100BT and Token
Ring cards are supported on HP-UX 32-bit OS, but not
64-bit OS. You will not see an error or warning message
stating that these EISA products will not work after
installing or updating to 64-bit OS.
Table B-4 Problems Configuring HP-UX 11i v1 (Continued)
Problem Description/Action