The "SF" family of vendor-supplied FC Host Adapter firmware supports the LP7000E (IOC-0210-54) model of the FC Host Adapter (also known as the V4 board type) from Emulex®.
This document supports the newest release and the previous release of SF firmware qualified for use with the DYNIX/ptx V4.6.x operating systems.
New Release: SF3.22a0, Section 3.1
See Table 1-1 for the latest recipe for the best set of SAN FC firmware to run on a given operating system.
This section contains the following:
Version SF3.22a0 of the FC Host Adapter firmware is compatible with:
Other members of its software release-sets as listed in Table 1-1
Switched or two-node arbitrated-loop fabric topology
Multimode, non-OFC, fiber-optic FC components
The Emulex LP7000E FC Host Adapter Model IOC-0210-54 only (also known as the "SuperFly" and "V4" board type)
IBM Magstar® 3590 E1A and E11 FC Tape Subsystems
IBM FAStT200TM Storage Server
IBM Enterprise Storage ServerTM (ESS)
CLARiiON® DAE and DPE Storage Subsystems
EMC® Symmetrix® Storage Subsystems running at least V5265.44.28 firmware.
Version SF3.22a0 is a maintenance release. It has the same feature set as the previous release SF3.21a0, but with an improved method for handling out-of-order frames during serious network malfunctioning.
The following Serious problem has been reported against the SF3.22a0 firmware. (See "FC I/O Subsystem-Level Problem Reports," Chapter 2 for possible I/O subsystem-level problems involving FC Host Adapters.)
When an EMC Symmetrix storage subsystem sends a port logout (LOGO) to all FC Host Adapters previously logged in to that particular port, those Host Adapters fail to notify the OS FC driver so that it can unregister that port. Subsequently, sequence timeout errors pile up in the ktlog until hard errors occur and all paths to that EMC storage port get marked down.
Workaround: Recover the paths by deconfiguring (devctl -d sdx) all of the sd devices behind that EMC port and then reconfigure them from the fabric parent (devctl -c fabricx). This will cause the Host Adapters to relogin to the EMC port without relogging into the fabric.
The SF3.22a0 software is installed on the system when the cfwdl-Compatible Firmware Bundle is installed on your host. The cfwdl-Compatible Firmware Bundle contains firmware that is downloaded only with the common firmware downloader, cfwdl. For details on the other software installed by this bundle, refer to the cfwdl-Compatible Firmware Bundle V1.3.2 Release Notes.
Within the bundle, the name of the firmware file for the LP7000E FC Host Adapter is fc_sf_322a0.sqfw.
Procedures for using the cfwdl utility to download firmware to any or all FC Host Adapters are provided in the "Downloading Firmware with cfwd," chapter of the DYNIX/ptx V4.6.1 and Layered Products Software Installation Release Notes.
All previous releases of SF3.xx software on DYNIX/ptx V4.6.x systems should be replaced with the new SF3.22a0 release.