Question about A6795A cards on a L1000

[Christophe CRIMETZ]

Hi gurus,
we got an L1000 server with two HP A6795A Fibre Channel PCI Adapter.
We bought it last year and we just receive an EVA12000 to connect to the cards.

In the HSG80 controller manual they say that the output of the ioscan -fn | grep fc (prior to the configuration of the controller) should give me three lines per Fibre Channel cards :
One concerning the fc class, the second concerning the lan class and the last one concerning he FCP class.

But when i do an ioscan -fn | grep fc , the only lines i get are :

- fc 0 0/4/0/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon XL2 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter

- fc 1 0/7/0/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon XL2 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter

When i do the following command
swlist -l product | grep -i fibre
it gives me

FC-TACHYON-TL B.11.11.09 PCI/HSC FibreChannel;Supptd HW=A6684A,A6685A,A5158A,A6795A
FCMassStorage B.11.11 Fibre Channel Mass Storage
PHKL_23626 1.0 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Patch

What's wrong with the configuration ?

More, i just can't find and installation guide for the A6795A cards except the little notice given with the driver on software.hp.com .

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks in advance

Wilfried

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Wilfried,

Check this link for more info,

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=A6795AEFI

left below is an install link, right below download software link.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Stefan Farrelly]

Your setup doesnt look too bad. This is what we have;

FibrChanl-00 B.11.11.09 PCI/HSC FibreChannel;Supptd HW=A6684A,A6685A,A5158A,A6795A
FCMassStorage B.11.11 Fibre Channel Mass Storage
PHKL_27751 1.0 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Patch

So you may need the later patch instead of your PHKL_23626. Our ioscan on our twin fibre cards shows;

>ioscan -fknCfc
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=================================================================
fc 0 0/12/0/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon TL/TS Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter
/dev/td0
fc 1 1/10/0/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon TL/TS Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapter
/dev/td1

The most important part being you now have 2 device files, td0 and td1. Now you can use the fcmsutil command to check fibre connectivity and settings;

fcmsutil /dev/td0

eg;

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Local N_Port_id is = 0x011500
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000a543b
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000a543a
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/12/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 92752164
Number of Active Login Sessions = 3
Dino Present on Card = NO
Maximum Frame Size = 960
Driver Version = @(#) libtd.a HP Fibre Channel Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Driver B.11.11.09 (AR1201) /ux/kern/kisu/TL/src/common/wsio/td_glue.c: Oct 11 2001, 11:52:36

Which shows the card has connection to a switch in FABRIC mode and working.
Once you assign LUNS to this fibre card via your disk subsystem then an ioscan -fnk | grep fc will show the device files of rhe disk luns youve added so you can pvcreate them and add them to a VG.