topic Re: FCMS Problem A6685A in Operating System - HP-UX

FCMS Problem A6685A

Justin Willoughby — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:40:22 GMT

Anyone have an issue with not seeing any LUNs on our SAN and get the following error trying to run fcmsutil?:

error in ioctl: Invalid argument

We were told my HP that the driver was installed in the wrong order and that they thought if we removed the driver, let the system reboot and re-installed the driver that it would fix the problem. This was not the case. The fibre cards show up as claimed but not the luns:

fc 0 8/0/1/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon TL/T
S Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter
/dev/td0
unknown -1 8/0/1/0.1 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN FCP Domain
unknown -1 8/0/1/0.2 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN FCP Domain
CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS GSCtoPCI Bridge
fc 1 8/4/1/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon TL/T
S Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter
/dev/td1
unknown -1 8/4/1/0.1 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN FCP Domain
unknown -1 8/4/1/0.2 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN FCP Domain

tdutil works just fine:

root# ./tdutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 3.0
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Local N_Port_id is = 0x021800
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b000013f91d
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b000013f91c
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 8/0/1/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0
Dino Present on Card = YES
Maximum Frame Size = 992
Driver Version = @(#) libtd.a HP Fibre Channel Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Driver B.11.00.10 (AR1201) /ux/core/kern/wsio/td_glue.c: Oct 11 2001, 11:56:06

- Justin

Re: FCMS Problem A6685A

Cheryl Griffin — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:32:53 GMT

Justin,
Installation order is critical. The patches must be installed prior to A6685A.
See http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=A6685A&oper=install

Make sure you have the necessary patches installed.
PHKL_23939 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Patch
PHSS_23996 Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver Patch

These patches have dependencies which include:
PHCO_21187 cumulative SAM/ObAM patch
PHCO_23651 fsck_vxfs(1M) cumulative patch
PHKL_18543 PM/VM/UFS/async/scsi/io/DMAPI/JFS/perf patch
PHKL_20016 2nd CPU not recognized in G70/H70/I70
PHKL_24027 VxFS 3.1 cumulative patch
PHKL_25475 PM cumulative patch
PHKL_25525 Probe,IDDS,PM,VM,PA-8700,asyncio,T600,FS

Within this bunch, these patches also have special installation instructions:
PHKL_18543 PHKL_20016 PHKL_23939 PHKL_24027 PHKL_25475 PHKL_25525

Check the order in which you installed the Tach product/patches:
# swlist -l product -a date
# swlist -l fileset -a date
or
# swlist -a install_date

The messages "UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN FCP Domain" usually indicate a problem with the patches. "error in ioctl: Invalid argument" is reported by the scsi driver which also indicates patches.

Also, try running:
# check_patches

Cheryl Griffin

Re: FCMS Problem A6685A

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:40:08 GMT

what is your domain ID on the Fibre Channel switch?

Remember that 8 is reserved

Check it please!

Re: FCMS Problem A6685A

Justin Willoughby — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:34:49 GMT

It seems my problem was that the install instructions assumed that FCMS was already installed. When I install the patch for it looked like it install but actually skipped some filesets because they were not there. Doing some looking FCMS is install by default with cold installs of 11.00 but the box I am trying to get this working on was 10.20 and was upgraded to 11.00.

Looking over the logs I see that FCMS was installed when the A6685A driver was intalled so the FCMS never got patched because the patch was installed before FCMS was installed.

I think the install docs should say to check for FCMassStorage and install it if it's not before doing any thing else...

- Justin