identifying maker of AB429A hba card

[John Jimenez]

We are connecting a new HP rx6600 server to XIOTECH SAN. The SAN admin is asking me what my hpa card is. I have an HP part number

AB429A HP FC1143 4Gb PCI-X 2.0 HBA

But I know HP does not make their own hba cards. It must be a Emmulex or GLogic care, but I have not been able to google the answer. Does anyone know what kind of card this is? thanks in advance.

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

It's QLogic.

http://www.hp.com/go/support
-> "See support and troubleshooting information" for product "AB429A".
-> "Manuals"
In the "General Reference" section, see document:
"HP StorageWorks QLogic Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters for Proliant and Integrity Servers using Windows and VMWare Operating Systems Release Notes (AA-RWFBB-TE, December 2007)", subtitle "Product models".

You'll find your card listed there.

There is another similar document for Emulex cards, and it *doesn't* list AB429A, so I'd say your card is positively identified as QLogic.

MK

[John Jimenez]

Thank you MK.

I am running HP UX 11.23 on these integrity servers. It looks like these cards are not going to work.

[rick jones]

Actually, AB429A would be a product number, not a part number, athought it may also be the initial portion of a part number :)

I take it the card appears as UNCLAIMED in ioscan output?

FWIW, your run-of-the-mill HP-UX I/O card driver will only claim cards with "supported" HP subvendor and subproduct IDs, which means that it may not claim a random "ProLiant," "Windows" or "Linux" card.

When I went to www.hp.com/go/rx6600 and clicked on "Options and Accessories" it did indeed show the AB429A - as a Windows/Linux card. The single-port PCI-X 2.0 4Gb FC HBA listed for HP-UX was the AB378B.

[Torsten.]

If you browse the quickspecs you will find this information:

HP StorageWorks FC1143 4Gb PCI-X 2.0 HBA StorageWorks 4Gb, PCI-X-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for Windows and Linux (Qlogic QLA2460) AB429A

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:vbU2uXWnZV4J:h18026.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12481_div/12481_div.html+AB429A+quickspecs&hl=de&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=de

But is this important?
You should always make sure you are using the latest driver software (this also includes the runtime firmware).