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Brian M Welch
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Fibre Channel installation issue

Here's my issue:

I downloaded the depot from HP for our adapter (A5185A), and run the swlist -d @ /path/to/depot , and that comes back as expected. I run a swreg to register the depot, works great! Now the issue is this: In swinstall, I switch to the depot I just registered, and mark the depot for install. swinstall marks the depot as 'partial'. The install runs, and states the fileset is already installed. Thought this was pretty bizarre, rebooted the system and ioscan still shows the adapter as unclaimed. Nothing in the kernel refers to our adapter. Running insf -e does not help the ioscan.

Anyone have any ideas?
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Torsten.
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Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

Whatever A5185A is, it is not a FC adapter.

But A5158A is.

Now it would be helpful to provide more details, like the driver version, the OS version, the server model ....

Hope this helps!
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Brian M Welch
Frequent Advisor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

I stand corrected, the adapter is A5158A.

The OS is HP-UX 11.0
Server is a J5600 Visualize Workstation
The driver version is B.11.00.10

Brian M Welch
Frequent Advisor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

I should also mention that we will not be updating the OS on this system. It's a crash and burn system used for development.
Tim Nelson
Honored Contributor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

My thoughts.

1) if you are sure the driver is installed then check the kernel. Is there any fc* listed in /stand/system. If not add the appropriate device drivers, rebuild kernel and reboot.

2) remove the supposidly installed FC drivers and reinstall

3) force the reinstall of the driver.

The reinstall of the driver would add the modules to the kernel.

Brian M Welch
Frequent Advisor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

Tim,

Thanks for the response! Here's a glimpse of /stand/system

* Drivers and Subsystems

DlkmDrv
GSCtoPCI
PCItoPCI
SCentIf
arp
asio0
asp
audio
autofsc
beep
btlan3
btlan6
c720
c8xx
cb
cdfs
clone
core
diag1
diag2
dlkm
dlpi
dmem
echo
fc
fc_arp
fcgsc
fcgsc_lan
ffs

We've tried to force a reinstall as well, no dice. Another thing I should note is that there are no td files associated with this device.
Juan M Leon
Trusted Contributor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

I agree with Nelson, that there is possible you have the FC drivers not loaded in the kernel.

I had something similar when I install FC cards to a rp4440.

read the following link:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1110120
James George_1
Trusted Contributor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

well, make sure you have installed the HBA / adapter properly. try removing it and re installing it ..

Rgds / james
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Brian M Welch
Frequent Advisor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

lsdev output:

# lsdev | grep -e 'td' -e 'Class' -e 'fc'
Character Block Driver Class
46 -1 netdiag1 unknown
142 -1 fcgsc_lan lan
143 -1 fcT1_cntl unknown
144 -1 fcp unknown
240 -1 td unknown
James George_1
Trusted Contributor

Re: Fibre Channel installation issue

It looks like you have to add the td/fcd modules in the kernel and reboot.

See this posting :

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1110120



Rgds / JAmes

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