installing Emulex fibre HBA

[Luqman Achmat]

Hello

I received 3 Itanium servers a while back and only recently started installing them with hp-uxv3 for our backup infrastructure.

However, 2 of the servers shipped with fibre channel card "A6826", and the other with an Emulex fibre card which I am struggling to install (detected, but UNCLAIMED). How do I go about installing the driver for this card? It is too late in the year for me to get HP out to replace this card with a A6826.

Hoping someone out there can help or has had a similar experience.

Regards
Luqman

[Denver Osborn]

For the emulex hba you'll need drivers from emulex. HP won't proved drivers for the 3rd party hba.

You'll need to know the model of emulex hba, then obtain the driver/support from the vendor. If the vendor doesn't support the driver on hp-ux 11i v3, you might be out of luck until they do.

Here's a url for emulex supported hpux driver, but no mention of 11i v3 with the downloads. You might follow up with emulex support to see if/when they might have one or if the v2 driver can be installed on hpux 11i v3.

http://www.emulex.com/support/hpux/index.jsp

-denver

[Luqman Achmat]

Thank you, will try the Emulex support.

Regards
Luqman

[Luqman Achmat]

Thanks, I will try Emulex support.

what are the chances the v2 drivers would work in a v3 system?

Luqman

[Torsten.]

>> what are the chances the v2 drivers would work in a v3 system?


==> 0%

[Luqman Achmat]

I will get the HP-branded card instead.

Thanks to all for your help!

Luqman

[Torsten.]

Good idea!

Reason for this
>> what are the chances the v2 drivers would work in a v3 system?


==> 0%

is, the driver will be integrated into the kernel while installation - mixing 11iv2 and 11iv3 doesn't fit at all. Anyway, even another HP driver will not work with 3rd party cards.