Software Distributor Requirements, Issues Fixed, and Workarounds HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-2562, March 2013)

Table 23 FibrChanl-01 (fcd) driver version history (continued)

RevisionRelease

B.11.23.08April 2007

B.11.23.07December 2006

B.11.23.06September 2006

B.11.23.05 (64-bit)June 2006

B.11.23.04.01 (64-bit)December 2005

B.11.23.03 (64-bit)March 2005

B.11.23.02 (64-bit)September 2004

Known limitations

This section provides a list of limitations as known to HP at time of publication. If workarounds are

available, they are included.

• EFI SEARCH Causes Boot to Fail on rx7640, rx8640, and sx2000 Superdome Server Systems

Running the SEARCH command at the EFI shell on rx7640, rx8640, and HP Integrity

Superdome/SX2000 server systems can cause the system to fail to boot through a Fibre

Channel HBA. rx7640 systems have a built-in SEARCH of slot 7. Affected 2Gb Fibre Channel

HBAs are: A6826A, A9782A, A9784A, and AB465A with EFI driver version 1.47 or earlier.

Affected 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs are: AB378A and AB379A with EFI driver version 1.01.

The boot will fail with a message similar to the following:

Load of HP-UX

Primary Boot: 1.0.1/1/0/4/0.8.0.255.0.6.0 failed: Not Found

Corrective Action: A fix in the 2Gb/4Gb drivers has been released. The following steps will

resolve the issue:

1. Go to www.hp.com

2. Click Software & Driver Downloads.

3. In the white text box, type the name of the I/O card, such as A6826A.

4. Click the >> button.

5. Click the Cross Operating System button.

6. Look for EFI 1.49 for adapters A6826A, A9782A, A9784A, and AB465A. Look for EFI

1.05 for adapters AB378A and AB379A.

• Configuring an Alternate Path on the Same 2–Port HBA as the Primary Path

On midrange and high end Integrity servers, if the primary and alternate boot devices are on

the same Fibre Channel HBA port, an attempt to manually boot from the alternate device will

fail.

For example, if your primary and alternate paths are set as follows:

Primary bootpath:

0/0/10/1/0/4/0.8.0.255.0.7.0 Alternate bootpath: 0/0/10/1/0/4/0.8.0.255.0.0.0

This will set the primary and alternate bootpaths, but you will only be able to boot from the

primary path.

Corrective Action:The issue can be resolved by following one of the following scenarios: