Headache with K box

[Rita C Workman]

Sorry about that...phone rang.

Headache with K box. Need to add a fiber adapter. Should be A3404A, which is now obsolete. Looks like A6685A is replacement for this...but....it says only put one in...and I wanted to install two. See this thread:

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/information_storage/support_doc/lpg75121.html

Anybody run into this...do you think I could get away with installing 2 - A6685A ????

Thanks,
Rita

[Sandip Ghosh]

Is it a slip of keboard? Or slip of finger?

[Rita C Workman]

Elbow....

[Pete Randall]

Actually, Rita, I don't see where the document you referenced says "just one". I do see the following (confusing) note:

Please note: Order
Product A6685A
(HSC Tachlite) in
place of the
A3404A if using
HP-UX 11.0 for
compatibility and
details). The
A3404A requires
associated license
(J3630BA), media
(J1602BA), and
the Support Plus
media (B6191AA),
and HP-UX
10.20. If
additional
adapters are
needed after the
first, only order the
adapter (A3404A)

which seems to say use the A6685A instead of the A3404A, unless you need more than one - then order the A3404A. I'm sure they just forgot to change the second reference to A3404A.

It sounds to me like you can have more than one.

Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Rita:

You don't mention which K-box but I dealt with something similar yesterday but if this is a K-570 or 580 then the maximum number of supported Fibre cards varies with the graphics hardware. Also note that your Fibre Card must not be installed in the Core-IO board.

See these Firmware Release Notes:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PF_CBHK4201&context=firmware:cpu

[Mike Fisher_1]

Hello Rita

HP-HSC cards Maximum of 1
HP-PB cards Maximum of 4
[two of which may be double-high]

But # 1:
The K460 & K5x0 can have the number of HP-HSC slots increased. You can add 2 or 4 slots. [& a further 4 on top of that I understand]

But # 2:
Also there is a card cage option - could be the answer...

What K have you got?

Regards
Mike

[Rita C Workman]

The box is a K370, recently upgraded to 11i. And yes it has an HSC Expansion with 4 slots. 2 slots now used - have A3404A installed (they connect to the EMC Symmetrix). I need to throw on a some quick disk space temporarily for something. The Symmetrix is already max'd out !

Was going to order the A6685A, when I noticed that 'strange' reference to "more than one" that Pete noticed too. That's what made me stop and figure I'd ask the experts if they agree. I feel it shouldn't be a problem....add 2 A6685A adapters to the current HSC and throw on that l'il disk array for now.

What d'ya think?

Rita

[Ashwani Kashyap · Accepted solution]

I have two A6685A on a K570 running HPUX 10.20 connected to an EMC SAN . No problems at all .

[Pete Randall]

Rita,

Admittedly it's a guess, but I think you're OK. That phrase we were questioning must have lost something in the translation from the original Sanskrit.

Pete

[Nag Varma]

Hi Rita,

We have a server model K570 with 2 A6685A cards
connected to EMC and an other server model model K380 with 2 A3404A cards connected to Mod30 ...All work fine..

Thanks
Nag

[Rita C Workman]

And the final answer is:

Yep it's ok!

CONSIDER THIS POST CLOSED

Thanks bunches !
Rita