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Hi, here is a quick tip, on how to get the firmware and driver dump of a FCx card on 11.13

A resmon event, we have lost link to our san for a couple of minutes:

Summary:
Adapter at hardware path 3/0/12/1/0 : FCD driver received notification of
RISC Parity Error

Description of Error:
lbolt value: 113041352

fcd driver received notification of RISC Parity Error.

Probable Cause / Recommended Action:

Fibre Channel RISC controller chip detected a internal data and/or
instruction queue parity error.
fcd driver will try to take a driver and firmware dump to diagnose this
problem. Please save this dump for Hewlett Packard to analyze.

We need to send the dump to hp, we can achive this with the fcsmutil command:

The HDW path of our fc card is 3/0/12/1/0, you get that from the resmon event above.

we get our device with:
#ioscan -fnkH 3/0/12/1/0 | grep "/dev/fcd"
/dev/fcd1 <------------- Our Device

Now that we now our device file we can check if we have pending dumps to save to disk:
#fcmsutil /dev/fcd1 | grep "Driver-Firmware"
Driver-Firmware Dump Available = YES
Driver-Firmware Dump Timestamp = Thu Oct 15 18:36:17 2009

Now we save the contents in tmp, and we can send them to HP to analyze:
# fcmsutil /dev/fcd1 dump_saved_state
Driver dump is saved in file /tmp/fcddrv_fcd1_09231210162009.dmp
Firmware dump is saved in file /tmp/fcdfw_fcd1_09231210162009.dmp

As you can see, once we have saved the dump to disk, the Dump Available has changed to NO:
Driver-Firmware Dump Available = NO
Driver-Firmware Dump Timestamp = N/A