Installing the A6828A Adapter

Installing the SCSI Driver

 

Installing the SCSI Driver

 

On most of the supported HP-UX PA-RISC systems, the SCSI c720

 

driver is used with some of the SCSI interfaces. This driver is

 

automatically installed as part of the HP-UX 11.0 core OS and the

 

HP-UX 11i base Operating Environment (OE). Therefore, you do not

 

have to install it separately.

 

However, you must separately install the SCSI c8xx driver, which is

 

used by the A6828A HBA in all the supported HP-UX systems. This

 

driver is available in the latest HP-UX bundle or at http://itrc.hp.com.

 

 

TIP

You should keep in mind that although the installation process installs

 

the c8xx driver, it does not load the c8xx driver into the HP-UX kernel

 

unless it detects one or more SCSI Ultra160 devices installed in the

 

HP-UX system. This is done to prevent the kernel from becoming

 

unnecessarily large.

 

Therefore, if Ultra160 devices (for example, a SCSI Ultra160 “add-in”

 

adapter [like the A6828A] or core I/O card) are already installed in the

 

HP-UX system, or if you will be installing an Ultra160 add-in adapter

 

later through OLA, you should install the c8xx driver now. If no SCSI

 

Ultra160 devices are in the system, and you do not want to install any

 

Ultra160 add-in adapters later, do not install the c8xx driver at this

 

time.

 

 

NOTE

You must install all patches before you install the bundle containing the

 

c8xx driver.

 

 

The following is an overview of the steps you need to perform:

Step 1. Issue the swlist command to see which patches are already installed on the system. You can get any patches you need to install from the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) at http://itrc.hp.com.

If you do not need to install any patches (other than the c8xx bundle), go to step 3.

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