HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Driver, September 2009

Mfd. Date : "4306"

Check Sum : 0x52

EFI version : "001.00"

ROM Firmware verision : "03.02.07"

Asset Tag : "NA"

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ROM has been updated successfully. The new firmware

and the VPD updation will take effect only after the

the system has been rebooted.

Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Offline Driver and Firmware Updates

The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is an Itanium-based preboot environment used to update

the EFI driver and firmware on the adapter. EFI can be used in either command-line interface

mode or batch mode. The following example demonstrates the use of the efiutil command-line

interface stored on a CD to update an EFI driver:

1. From the EFI prompt, enter the map -r command.

2. Enter the cd command to change to the directory containing efiutil.

3. Enter the efiutil command to get to the command line interface for efiutil.

4. Choose the adapter you want to update as shown below:

efiutil>adapter

Adapter Index number [0]?<n>

Where: <n> represents the adapter index you want to update.

NOTE: Please note that the index number is the digit (0, 1, etc.) displayed by efiutil.

The digit is the second letter in the leftmost column, under the heading, “Adapter”; i.e., the

“0” in “A0”, the “1” in “A1”, etc.).

5. To update the EFI driver, enter the following command:

efiutil>efi_write=<EFI driver file name>

6. To update the card firmware, enter the following command:

efiutil>risc_fw_write=<firmware file name>

7. After the update process is complete, reset the system by entering the following command:

fsx:\>reset

Fibre Channel Device Scanning Policy Configuration for HP Integrity

Systems

The drvcfg utility is an EFI shell command that can be used to set the Device Scanning Policy

in the Fibre Channel EFI driver.

The -s option for the drvcfg utility provides two enumeration policy options for Fibre Channel:

0 and 1. With option 0, the Fibre Channel driver only scans devices that are in the current boot

order list in NVRAM. If option 1 is selected, the Fibre Channel driver scans all the devices

connected to the Fibre Channel cards installed on the system. Review the EFIFCScanLevel setting

in the drvcfg utility for more information.

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