HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide, February 2007

Chapter 3

Troubleshooting and Maintenance

Firmware Updates

This section explains the process for updating the firmware of your Fibre Channel host bus adapter.

Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Online Firmware Updates

The Fibre Channel host bus adapters that use the FCD driver can be updated while the system is online by

using the rom_fw_update option of the fcmsutil command.

CAUTION Do not attempt to use the following procedure if the adapter is attached to a boot disk, swap, or

dump device; this will result in a system hang.

An example of updating the A6826A firmware is as follows:

# fcmsutil /dev/fcd8 rom_fw_update romfw.bin

WARNING: This is a DESTRUCTIVE operation.

This might result in failure of current I/O requests.

Do you want to continue? (y/n) [n]...y

##### IMPORTANT NOTICE:

If boot disks are connected to this HBA and your system is

not configured with LVM or if LVM is configured without

failover capablity, this operation can cause significant

system downtime in case any error occurs during the ROM

update operation.

Do you want to continue? (y/n) [n]...y

Please save the below Vital Product Data (VPD) information.

If the ROM update fails due to an irrecoverable error, this

data may be lost forever. In such a scenraio, this data can

be used to restore back the VPD onto the failed ROM, during

ODE recovery procedures.

V I T A L P R O D U C T D A T A

--------- ------------- -------

Product Discription : "Dual Port 2Gbps/1Gbps Fibre Channel Universal PCI-X Adapter"

Part number : "A6826-60001"

Engineering Date Code : "X-4306"

Part Serial number : "US00000083"

Misc. Information : "PW=15W;PCI 66MHZ;PCI-X 133MHZ"

Mfd. Date : "4306"

Check Sum : 0x52

EFI version : "001.00"

ROM Firmware verision : "03.02.07"

Asset Tag : "NA"

This operation may take upto 30 secs to complete...

ROM has been updated successfully. The new firmware

and the VPD updation will take effect only after the

the system has been rebooted.