Technical data

Updating Firmware On Tape

Overview

To update ﬁrmware on tape, the system must have a TZ30 tape

drive.

If you need to make a bootable tape, copy the bootable image ﬁle

to a tape as shown in the following example. Refer to the release

notes for the name of the ﬁle.

NOTE

There are different ﬁles for booting from tape/disk or

Ethernet.

$ INIT MIA5:"VOLUME_NAME"

$ MOUNT/BLOCK_SIZE = 512 MIA5:"VOLUME_NAME"

$ COPY/CONTIG <file_name> MIA5:<file_name>

$ DISMOUNT MIA5

Use the following procedure to update ﬁrmware on tape:

Step Action Comment

1 Enter the BOOT device

name command for the

tape device at the

console prompt (>>>)

Example:

BOOT/100 MKA500

Use the SHOW DEVICE

command if you are not sure

of the device name for the tape

drive.

2 Enter the bootﬁle

name when the system

prompts you.

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