Warning message for A6685A fibre cards at boot up

[Jerry Laramee]

Hello all,
I just recently installed 2 A6685A Tachyon cards in my K460. I also upgraded to the latest firmware 41.33. However when booting I get this message:
8 ccio
8/0 GSCtoPCI
8/0/1/0 td
td: claimed Tachyon TL/TS Fibre Channel Mass Storage card at 8/0/1/0
8/0/1/0.8 fcp
8/0/1/0: WARNING: It appears that there are (or were) more than one device with
the same address (nport ID) setting of 0x0. One of them will be ignored.

8/0/1/0: WARNING: It appears that there are (or were) more than one device with
the same address (nport ID) setting of 0x0. One of them will be ignored.

8/0/1/0: WARNING: It appears that there are (or were) more than one device with
the same address (nport ID) setting of 0x0. One of them will be ignored.

8/4 GSCtoPCI
8/4/1/0 td
td: claimed Tachyon TL/TS Fibre Channel Mass Storage card at 8/4/1/0
8/4/1/0.8 fcp
8/4/1/0: WARNING: It appears that there are (or were) more than one device with
the same address (nport ID) setting of 0x0. One of them will be ignored.

8/4/1/0: WARNING: It appears that there are (or were) more than one device with
the same address (nport ID) setting of 0x0. One of them will be ignored.

8/4/1/0: WARNING: It appears that there are (or were) more than one device with
the same address (nport ID) setting of 0x0. One of them will be ignored.

when I use fcmsutil I get the following output:
# fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 3.0
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PRIVATE_LOOP
Local N_Port_id is = 0x000001
Local Loop_id is = 125
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b0000090c29
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b0000090c28
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 8/0/1/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

# fcmsutil /dev/td1

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 3.0
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x000006
Topology = PRIVATE_LOOP
Local N_Port_id is = 0x000001
Local Loop_id is = 125
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b000009054d
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b000009054c
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 8/4/1/0
Number of Assisted IOs = 0
Number of Active Login Sessions = 0

ioscan produces this:
# ioscan -kfnC fc
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=====================================================================
fc 0 8/0/1/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon TL/TS Fibre
Channel Mass Storage Adapter
/dev/td0
fc 1 8/4/1/0 td CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Tachyon TL/TS Fibre
Channel Mass Storage Adapter
/dev/td1

But I can't see any of the disks attached to them. any ideas?

[melvyn burnard]

This is generally an indication that there is something out there on the FC card that has the same address as the card.
disconnect the discs/devices, and reboot to see if yoiu still get the error.
if not, then you need to start investigating what is out on the FC connections.
you do not say what hardware is involved here.

[Stefan Farrelly]

When we installed our A6685A fiber cards recently the installation instructions advised us to install a bunch of patches (for 10.20);

# No Bundle(s) on fin1:/swdepot/hpux10/fiberpatches/
# Product(s):
#

PHCO_16591 B.10.00.00.AA fsck_vxfs(1M) cumulative patch
PHCO_18563 B.10.00.00.AA LVM commands cumulative patch
PHCO_21186 B.10.00.00.AA Cumulative SAM/ObAM Patch.
PHKL_16957 B.10.00.00.AA Physical dump devices configuration patch
PHKL_17858 B.10.00.00.AA Fix for mount/access of disc sections.
PHKL_20611 B.10.00.00.AA Correct process hangs on ufs inodes
PHKL_21595 B.10.00.00.AA PHKL_19540 PHKL_18198
PHKL_21661 B.10.00.00.AA lo_realvfs panic fix, Cumulative LOFS patch
PHKL_23419 B.10.00.00.AA VxFS mount(2) cumulative patch
PHNE_19936 B.10.00.00.AA cumulative ARPA Transport patch
PHSS_20999 B.10.00.00.AA Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Patch

As well as using a later version of the Fiber driver;

A6685A B.10.20.01 HSC Tachyon TL Fibre Channel
J3630BA B.10.20.61 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver

Or for HP-UX 11;

A6685A B.11.00.08 HSC Fibre Channel

PHKL_21834 B.11.00.AA Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver Patch

Are you uptodate with these ?

[Jerry Laramee]

Stefan - Yeah, I'm all up to date with the patches.

melvyn - I'm going to look into that now.