HP PCI Error Handling and Recovery User's Guide

PCI Error Handling Product Note

HP-UX Servers and Workstations

Fourth Edition

Manufacturing Part Number : 5992-3799

March 2008

United States

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Publishing History

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edition was published (minor typographical or formatting corrections do not result in the publication of a new
edition). The publishing date, manufacturing part number, and edition number all change each time a new
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Edition / Manufacturing Part Number / Date

First Edition / 5991-4793 / March 2006
Second Edition / 5991-5308 / April 2006
Third Edition / 5992-0539 / March 2007
Fourth Edition / 5992-3799 / March 2008

Conventions

We use the following typographical conventions.
audit (5) An HP-UX manpage. audit is the name and 5 is the section in the HP-UX Reference. On the

web and on the Instant Information CD, it may be a hot link to the manpage itself. From the
HP-UX command line, you can enter “man audit” or “man 5 audit” to view the manpage.
See man (1).

Book Title The title of a book. On the web and on the Instant Information CD, it may be a hot link to

the book itself.

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Variable

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{} The contents are required in formats and command descriptions. If the contents are a list

. . . The preceding element may be repeated an arbitrary number of times.
| Separates litems in a list of choices.

The name of a variable that you may replace in a command or function or information in a

display that represents several possible values.

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PCI Error Handling Product Note

What is PCI Error Handling? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Accessing and Installing the PCI Error Handling Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Confirm PCI Error Handling is Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installing PCI Error Handling from the Software Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

New Error Messages for PCI Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

New btlan Driver Error Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

New igelan Driver Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

New iether Driver Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

New fcd Driver Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

New mpt Driver Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

How to Online Recover from a PCI Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Recovery Using the olrad Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Recovery Using the Attention Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

PCI Error Handling Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Known Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Removing the PCI Error Handling Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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