AH401A HBA driver

[Ron Irving]

Gentlemen!!

I have 2 servers with multiple FC HBA's installed. They are all AH401A's. I have 6 of them at driver rev B.11.31.1003 Jan 5 2010,
and 1 at B.11.31.1009 May 9 2010. I have downloaded the latest/greatest from the HP website. Is there a procedure documented out there on how to upgrade said driver? I have attached the output of fcmsutil on both sets of HBA's. Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide.

Regards,

Ron

[Manix · Accepted solution]

Your output doesn`t gives any Model & driver`s details ..however both cards looks
same, you need to install the same FW /driver
for each.

Try the command below ..
# fcmsutil /dev/fcd2 vpd
V I T A L P R O D U C T D A T A
--------- ------------- -------

Product Description : HP PCI-X 2.0 Dual Port 4Gb Fibre Channel HBA

Part number : AB379-60001

Engineering Date Code : A-4624

Part Serial number : MY50642S56

Misc. Information : PW=15W;PCI=66MHZ;PCI-X=266MHZ

[Manix]

How to install ?

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayInstallInfo.do?productNumber=FibrChanl00

Thanks
Manix

[Ron Irving]

Hey,

Thanks for your responses. Here's the Vital Product Data you asked for.

I will review the install instuctions now.

Let me know if I can provide anything else.

Ron

[Manix]

You can go ahead and install the driver for the
Part number : AJ764A or AH401A ,just check if driver supports the above models in HCL list.

Looks good so far !! go ahead ..

I would like to see ioscan -fnc fc as well!!.

Thanks
Manix

[Ron Irving]

Hey Manix!!

Thanks so much for your help. As requsted, here's the ioscans from the servers.

Regards,

ron

[Manix]

so one HBA on server A & 6 on server B same type ,go ahead.

Thanks
Manix

[Ron Irving]

Manix, thank you so much for your help!!

Another question while I have your attention. These HBA's are not currently hooked up to anything. Will it cause any harm if I pull 4 of the HBA's from server B, and install them into other servers?

Curiously yours,

ron

[Manix]

Please check that they are not in 'awaiting_link_up' state before pulling them out.

If they are not in use they are all yours.
Do show some curiosity in points tally too :)

Thanks
Manix

[Ron Irving]

thanks Manix!! I think I'm all set!!!