The HP A5158A is a Fabric card, released this year.  You're referring to the
HP A3740A card, which was Private Loop only.

Michael Traves
----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus Lübeck" <magnus AT inserve DOT se>
To: "Michael Traves" <mtraves.news AT home DOT com>;
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HP 5158 Fibre Channel Adapter


> Hello!
>
> Well, that is, because HP-cards do not do a "fabric login" yet (correct me
> if I'm wrong). They cannot work on a switched SAN (fabroc) without
> workarounds. What you need to do is to set up a quick loop on the Brocade
> 4116 switch, which tells the switch to fool the card that it is on the
same
> Arbitrated Loop as the tape drives, althoug it is not. As of the rest,
> NetBackup will recognize the tapes as soon as you get them to work with
> your hosts.
>
> Regards,
> //magnus lubeck
>
> At 23:31 2000-12-07 -0500, you wrote:
> >Looking for anyone who's used this card in a Brocade SAN.  We're planning
> >on using this card in a heterogeneous TAPE SAN with NBU 3.4 / SSO, as
well
> >as in a DISK SAN with VxVM (homogenous at this point).
> >
> >I've been informed by HP that it doesn't play well in Zones yet -- anyone
> >had some experience either way?
> >
> >Michael
>
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