topic Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver in Operating System - HP-UX

Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 17:05:03 GMT

We recently purchased an L9000 series server. We got 2 Tachyon TL/TS HBA's. At the time the server was configured, the HBA's reported to be in loop mode when I ran the fcmsutil. I needed these's HBA's in fabric mode, so that I can configure them into my EMC Clariion SAN. I applied a series of patches including PHSS_24121. After doing so, I get the following on each HBA:
fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
Device ID is = 0x001028
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = Topology is Unknown
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610E13

How can I correct this and get my HBA's into fiber aware mode?

Thanks,

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 17:48:37 GMT

I have run tddiag on the HBA's and have the following report. I hope this helps.

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Ajay Sishodia — Mon, 06 May 2002 17:57:26 GMT

Eric,

What is the product number for the Tachyonlite Fibre channel card? The A5158A are auto-config and will configure itself in Fabric (or loop) depending on how the switch port is configured.

regards
Ajay Sishodia

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 18:17:23 GMT

I'm using the A5158A HBA's. These HBA's were in loop mode when we first installed the server. I found a driver that should have made it fabric aware, but I couldn't install it. swinstall claimed that it wasn't meant for my system.
I install several patches related to fabre channel, and after the last one I couldn't get any stat's on the card whether it was in loop or fabric mode. lssf /dev/td0 tells me lssf: Don't know how to handle driver "td"
root@hpsan01 [/dev] # fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
Device ID is = 0x001028
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = Topology is Unknown
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610E13
Memory fault(coredump)

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Ajay Sishodia — Mon, 06 May 2002 18:42:40 GMT

Eric,
You must install the following Tachyon FCMS patche *prior* to installing the A5158A driver:
PHKL_23626 or later for HP-UX 11i

Also do a
swlist -l fileset -a state | grep PH | more

All patches should show up as "configured" - if patches are found in the "installed" state: manually configure the patch by issuing the swconfig patch command. If any patches are in a "transient" state, contact HP for assistance before proceeding with product installation. All patches must be in a configured state before proceeding.

HTH
Ajay

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 18:55:55 GMT

Thanks,
I tried installing that patch before, and it didn't work. I just now redownloaded it, and tried to install it again. Here is the output of the error:

root@hpsan01 [/tmp] # h_match_target=true -s /tmp/PHKL_23626.depot <

======= 05/06/02 14:46:21 CDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=hpsan01-0032)

* Session started for user "root@hpsan01".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "hpsan01:/".
NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target
software on "hpsan01" which passed the filter.
NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.

======= 05/06/02 14:46:24 CDT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=hpsan01-0032)

Here is my swlist. Everything is configured

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

melvyn burnard — Mon, 06 May 2002 19:19:13 GMT

so what driver version do you have installed??
swlist -l product and look for the T/L or TachLite driver.
It must be a minimum of 11.04 if I remember correctly, and there is a spcific way of installing the driver plus patches.
go see:
http://www.techsolutions.hp.com/fc/fabric.htm

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 19:29:42 GMT

Here is the output of my swlist

FibrChanl-00 B.11.11.03 PCI FibreChannel;Supptd HW=A5158A

I tried to install the new driver, which is B.11.11.09, however it won't install because I'm missing the dependency. The patch dependency however won't install either.

So I'm still stuck.

Thanks

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 20:00:59 GMT

I managed to get PHKL_23626 install:

root@hpsan01 [/tmp] # swlist -l file | grep PHKL_23626
# PHKL_23626 1.0 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Patch
# PHKL_23626.CORE2-KRN 1.0 OS-Core.CORE2-KRN
PHKL_23626.CORE2-KRN: /usr/conf/lib/fcms.o
# PHKL_23626.FCMS-ENG-A-MAN 1.0 FCMassStorage.FCMS-ENG-A-MAN
PHKL_23626.FCMS-ENG-A-MAN: /usr/share/man/man1m.Z/fcmsutil.1m
# PHKL_23626.FCMS-KRN 1.0 FCMassStorage.FCMS-KRN
PHKL_23626.FCMS-KRN: /usr/conf/lib/libfcms.a
# PHKL_23626.FCMS-RUN 1.0 FCMassStorage.FCMS-RUN
PHKL_23626.FCMS-RUN: /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil

However I still can't get A5158A_11.00.depot installed.

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Ajay Sishodia — Mon, 06 May 2002 20:01:43 GMT

Are you using HP-UX 11.11? IF you are using 11.0 uninstall the driver and try installing the patch PHKL_23939 for 11.0. Please check if all the dependent patches are on the system.
for example PHKL_18543 is needed before you can install PHKL_23939 for 11.0

Ajay

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 20:04:36 GMT

root@hpsan01 [/tmp] # uname -r
B.11.11

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 20:26:32 GMT

Thanks guys,
I got it.

root@hpsan01 [/] # fcmsutil /dev/td1

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610e13
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000a96e7
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000a96e6
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/7/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

root@hpsan01 [/] # fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610e13
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ad
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ac
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/4/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

root@hpsan01 [/] #

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

melvyn burnard — Mon, 06 May 2002 21:07:12 GMT

so how about letting us know what fixed it?

Re: Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

Eric Bursley — Mon, 06 May 2002 22:29:33 GMT

I removed the fibre channel patch PHKL_26243, and install PHKL_23626.
I then install A5158_11.11.depot

After the reboots, I did an fcmsutil /dev/td0, and it showed fabric.

root@hpsan01 [/var/adm/syslog] # fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610e13
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ad
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ac
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/4/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 105
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

root@hpsan01 [/var/adm/syslog] #

I then logged into my Mcdata switch and zoned it in.

I'm getting some weirdness now, but I think I'm going to do a few things before I open another question on the forum.

You guys are great.