HP-9000 n4000 adding SCSI card

[Marty Metras]

This weekend they are going to let me shut down HP box. I am going to do some dusting and install 2 more PCI SCSI cards.
When I install these SCSI cards what are the commands I need to see if the system see them.
There will be two #A5159A SCSI cards connected to four # A3312A drive towers/racks.
on an HP9000/N4000 running HP-UX 11.0
What I want to do is just plug them in this weekend and make sure the system can see them. Then configure the drives later.
As I have not had to do this before, I need to know what the commands are to verify they work.
Marty

[Geno Church]

Marty,

All you need to do is install the cards, make sure the driver for the cards are in the kernel, boot the system up and do an 'ioscan -fn' to see if the system sees the cards.

Good luck!

[S.K. Chan]

Since you're saying you're "installing 2 more PCI card" I would say the kernel has the driver already. After you've connected the drives, run ..
# ioscan -fnC disk
to see if the device files are created. Usually they don't until you run ..
# insf -e
and that would create the device files for you. Run
# ioscan -fnC disk
again to verify.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

If you are installing the cards but not the disks you can check the cards are installed before you check the disks.

ioscan -u | grep SCSI

or

ioscan -fnC ext_bus

John.

[meng_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi
The frist step
U go to thr rear of N4000,
an find the slot which U want put the SCSI card.
then U find the slot No such as 0/4/0 ...
and write down it.

step 2 after booting the server. use command
#> ioscan -fnH {the path wihch U just write down}

this commadn maybe is
#> ioscan -fnH 0/0/4

step 3 find the state of the ctl. If it is CLAIMED. It mean the card is correct.
usually the SCSI ID of scsi card is 7.

Btw, U should run the command
twice for another card.
If anything unclear post the
screen.

good luck

[Marty Metras]

Thanks for your help.
This told me just what I needed to verify the hardware was installed.
After looking at what I had to do to install the SCSI cards (Hardware part), I desided to wait until I had more time.
Looks like I have to take half to computer apart to do this. I will schedule one of your hardare people to help as I can not aford to have this down Monday.
Thanks for your help.
Marty