Tachyon TL Fibre Channel Driver

[Eric Bursley]

We recently purchased an L9000 series server. We got 2 Tachyon TL/TS HBA's. At the time the server was configured, the HBA's reported to be in loop mode when I ran the fcmsutil. I needed these's HBA's in fabric mode, so that I can configure them into my EMC Clariion SAN. I applied a series of patches including PHSS_24121. After doing so, I get the following on each HBA:
fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
Device ID is = 0x001028
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = Topology is Unknown
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610E13


How can I correct this and get my HBA's into fiber aware mode?

Thanks,

[Eric Bursley]

I have run tddiag on the HBA's and have the following report. I hope this helps.

[Ajay Sishodia]

Eric,

What is the product number for the Tachyonlite Fibre channel card? The A5158A are auto-config and will configure itself in Fabric (or loop) depending on how the switch port is configured.

regards
Ajay Sishodia

[Eric Bursley]

I'm using the A5158A HBA's. These HBA's were in loop mode when we first installed the server. I found a driver that should have made it fabric aware, but I couldn't install it. swinstall claimed that it wasn't meant for my system.
I install several patches related to fabre channel, and after the last one I couldn't get any stat's on the card whether it was in loop or fabric mode. lssf /dev/td0 tells me lssf: Don't know how to handle driver "td"
root@hpsan01 [/dev] # fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
Device ID is = 0x001028
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103C
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = Topology is Unknown
Local N_Port_id is = 0x610E13
Memory fault(coredump)

[Ajay Sishodia]

Eric,
You must install the following Tachyon FCMS patche *prior* to installing the A5158A driver:
PHKL_23626 or later for HP-UX 11i

Also do a
swlist -l fileset -a state | grep PH | more

All patches should show up as "configured" - if patches are found in the "installed" state: manually configure the patch by issuing the swconfig patch command. If any patches are in a "transient" state, contact HP for assistance before proceeding with product installation. All patches must be in a configured state before proceeding.

HTH
Ajay

[Eric Bursley]

Thanks,
I tried installing that patch before, and it didn't work. I just now redownloaded it, and tried to install it again. Here is the output of the error:

root@hpsan01 [/tmp] # h_match_target=true -s /tmp/PHKL_23626.depot <

======= 05/06/02 14:46:21 CDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=hpsan01-0032)

* Session started for user "root@hpsan01".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "hpsan01:/".
NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target
software on "hpsan01" which passed the filter.
NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.

======= 05/06/02 14:46:24 CDT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=hpsan01-0032)

Here is my swlist. Everything is configured

[melvyn burnard]

so what driver version do you have installed??
swlist -l product and look for the T/L or TachLite driver.
It must be a minimum of 11.04 if I remember correctly, and there is a spcific way of installing the driver plus patches.
go see:
http://www.techsolutions.hp.com/fc/fabric.htm

[Eric Bursley]

Here is the output of my swlist

FibrChanl-00 B.11.11.03 PCI FibreChannel;Supptd HW=A5158A


I tried to install the new driver, which is B.11.11.09, however it won't install because I'm missing the dependency. The patch dependency however won't install either.

So I'm still stuck.

Thanks

[Eric Bursley]

I managed to get PHKL_23626 install:

root@hpsan01 [/tmp] # swlist -l file | grep PHKL_23626
# PHKL_23626 1.0 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Patch
# PHKL_23626.CORE2-KRN 1.0 OS-Core.CORE2-KRN
PHKL_23626.CORE2-KRN: /usr/conf/lib/fcms.o
# PHKL_23626.FCMS-ENG-A-MAN 1.0 FCMassStorage.FCMS-ENG-A-MAN
PHKL_23626.FCMS-ENG-A-MAN: /usr/share/man/man1m.Z/fcmsutil.1m
# PHKL_23626.FCMS-KRN 1.0 FCMassStorage.FCMS-KRN
PHKL_23626.FCMS-KRN: /usr/conf/lib/libfcms.a
# PHKL_23626.FCMS-RUN 1.0 FCMassStorage.FCMS-RUN
PHKL_23626.FCMS-RUN: /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil

However I still can't get A5158A_11.00.depot installed.

[Ajay Sishodia]

Are you using HP-UX 11.11? IF you are using 11.0 uninstall the driver and try installing the patch PHKL_23939 for 11.0. Please check if all the dependent patches are on the system.
for example PHKL_18543 is needed before you can install PHKL_23939 for 11.0

Ajay

[Eric Bursley]

root@hpsan01 [/tmp] # uname -r
B.11.11

[Eric Bursley]

Thanks guys,
I got it.


root@hpsan01 [/] # fcmsutil /dev/td1

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 = 0x610e13
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000a96e7
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000a96e6
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/7/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

root@hpsan01 [/] # fcmsutil /dev/td0

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 = 0x610e13
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ad
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ac
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/4/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

root@hpsan01 [/] #

[melvyn burnard]

so how about letting us know what fixed it?

[Eric Bursley]

I removed the fibre channel patch PHKL_26243, and install PHKL_23626.
I then install A5158_11.11.depot

After the reboots, I did an fcmsutil /dev/td0, and it showed fabric.

root@hpsan01 [/var/adm/syslog] # fcmsutil /dev/td0

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 = 0x610e13
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ad
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b00000b65ac
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 0/4/0/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 105
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

root@hpsan01 [/var/adm/syslog] #

I then logged into my Mcdata switch and zoned it in.

I'm getting some weirdness now, but I think I'm going to do a few things before I open another question on the forum.

You guys are great.