Compaq 4100 User Manual

AlphaServer4100/4000 Firmware Release Notes For Compaq Tru64 UNIX, DIGITAL UNIX and OpenVMSCustomers

Revised September, 2001

SRM Console Version: V6.0-4

These release notes are for the V6.0-4 SRM console, and include documented restrictions in V6.0-4. Firmware update instructions and other useful information is also provided.

Firmware release notes for Windows NT AlphaServer 4100/4000 customers are available separately. Information about where to obtain AlphaBIOS console release notes is provided in Section 1.7 of this document.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Beginning with SRM V5.3 console ﬁrmware, the AlphaBIOS console was relocated to a different sector in the ﬂash rom to accomodate Windows NT serviceability. Please read the update procedures information, found in Chapter 2, carefully for the details on this change and what new steps are required for updating ﬁrmware. These changes apply to all systems and are independent of what operating system is in use.

January, 2001

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Contents

PREFACE v

CHAPTER 1 FIRMWARE UPDATE INFORMATION 1–1

1.1 FIRMWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEM REVISION MATRIX 1–2

1.2 CONSOLE FIRMWARE COMPONENTS AND REVISION INFORMATION 1–3

1.3 PCI I/O OPTION FIRMWARE COMPONENTS - REVISION INFORMATION 1–4

1.4 CONFIGURATION UTILITY KIT AND VERSION INFORMATION 1–4

1.5 ALPHA SYSTEMS FIRMWARE QUARTERLY UPDATE KIT 1–5

1.6 ACCESSING FIRMWARE OVER THE INTERNET 1–5

1.6.1 Proper Transfer Types For Use With FAT-Format Floppy

Updates 1–6

1.7 FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES FOR WINDOWS NT CUSTOMERS 1–6

1.8 ALPHASERVER 4100 DOCUMENTATION 1–6

CHAPTER 2 FIRMWARE UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS 2–1

2.1 UPDATING YOUR SYSTEM FIRMWARE 2–1

2.2 PREPARING FOR THE UPDATE 2–2

2.2.1 LFU command changes 2–2

2.2.2 Updating Using the Alpha Systems Firmware Update V6.0

CD 2–3

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2.2.3 Updating Using a FAT-Formatted Floppy Diskette 2–3

2.2.4 Updating Using an ODS2-Formatted Floppy Diskette 2–4

2.2.5 Updating Off Network Via Your Local MOP Server 2–5

2.2.5.1 Updating Off Network via BOOT command • 2–5

2.2.5.2 Updating Off Network via LFU command • 2–5

2.3 PERFORMING THE UPDATE 2–6

CHAPTER 3 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW THE FIRST TIME YOU

POWER ON YOUR MACHINE 3–1

3.1 MEMORY TESTS CAN TAKE A VERY LONG TIME! 3–1

3.2 SELECTING WHICH CONSOLE IS LOADED AND YOUR DISPLAY DEVICE 3–1

3.3 CONFIGURING YOUR MACHINE PRIOR TO BOOTING 3–2

3.4 SRM CONSOLE FIRMWARE SUPPORTED BOOT DEVICES 3–4

3.5 NEW FEATURES, CHANGES AND BUGS FIXED IN THE V6.0 SRM CONSOLE 3–4

3.6 SRM CONSOLE FIRMWARE BUGS AND RESTRICTIONS 3–5

3.7 WINDOWS NT SERVICEABILITY INFORMATION 3–5

3.7.1 Software requirements 3–5

3.7.2 Effects of Window NT Serviceability support on the update

process 3–6

3.7.3 EEPROM commands for Windows NT error logging 3–6

3.7.3.1 Build eeprom • 3–6

3.7.3.2 Show eeprom • 3–6

3.7.3.3 Clear eeprom • 3–6

3.8 ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR KZPSA CHANGES IMPLEMENTED WITH THE V5.1 RELEASE 3–7

3.9 DIGITAL FAST ETHERWORKS PCI 10/100 (DE500) ADAPTERS AND AUTO-NEGOTIATION 3–7

3.9.1 Set EW*0_Mode Auto-Negotiate 3–8

3.9.2 Behavior Note on Systems with Multiple DE500’s

3.10 NOTE ON UNIX INSTALLATIONS 3–9

CHAPTER 4 RUNNING EISA, RAID, AND OTHER CONFIGURATION

UTILITIES 4–1

4.1 SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM TO RUN ARC-BASED UTILITIES 4–1

4.2 USING A SERIAL LINE INTERFACE TO RUN ARC-BASED UTILITIES 4–1

4.3 RESTRICTIONS WHEN RUNNING KZPSA UTILITIES 4–2

Contents

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APPENDIX A RESTORE_NVRAM AND SAVE_NVRAM A–1

A.1 SAVE NVRAM DATA IN EEROM/TOY TO A FLOPPY FILE. A–1

A.2 RESTORE NVRAM DATA TO EEROM/TOY FROM A FLOPPY FILE. A–2

TABLES

1–1 AlphaServer 4100 Firmware/Software Revision Matrix 1–2 1–2 V6.0-4 SRM Console Firmware Components and Revisions 1–3 1–3 Fail-safe Loader Kit content 1–3 1–4 I/O Module Firmware Revision Matrix 1–4 1–5 Conﬁguration Utility Revisions 1–5 1–6 Orderable Documentation for the AlphaServer 4100 1–6 3–1 Supported Boot Devices (SRM Console V4.8 or above) 3–4 4–1 KZPSA CNFGDIAG.EXE (V1.5) Issues/Bugs With SCSI Options 4–2

Preface

Purpose of These Release Notes

These release notes are intended for users of the AlphaServer 4100 and AlphaServer 4000 cabinet- and pedestal-style systems. Henceforth in these notes, "4100" will be used to refer to both the model 4100 and model

4000. These release notes also support the DIGITAL Server 7000 Models 7300, 7305 and 7310.

This document provides release note information for the following items:

• SRM Console - system FEPROM0, sectors 3 - 15

• Loadable Firmware Update (LFU) Utility - built into SRM console

• OpenVMS Alpha PALcode - system FEPROM0, sector 1

• DIGITAL UNIX PALcode - system FEPROM0, sector 1

• Extended SROM (XSROM) - system FEPROM0 sectors 0 and 2

• Fail-safe Loader (FSL) - aforementioned XSROM sectors

• EISA Conﬁguration Utility (ECU) - ﬂoppy diskette

• RAID Conﬁguration Utility (RCU) - ﬂoppy and Alpha FW CD

• KZPSA Conﬁguration/Diagnostic Utilities - Alpha FW CD

• PCI I/O Adapter Firmware for ISP1020 - shipped in SRM console image

• PCI I/O Adapter Firmware for KZPSA, DEFPA, and CIPCA - Alpha FW CD

AlphaBIOS, which resides in system FEPROM1 and is used to boot and support Windows NT on the AlphaServer 4100, ships release notes separately. See Section 1.7 for information about where to ﬁnd AlphaBIOS release notes.

AlphaBIOS is also used to run ECU, RCU, and various other ARCbased utilities which ship on ﬂoppy and/or the Alpha Firmware CD. See Chapter 4 of these release notes and the AlphaServer 4100 System Drawer User’s Guide for instructions on how to use AlphaBIOS and run ARC-based utilities.

System ﬂash parts (FEPROM0 and FEPROM1) reside on the PCI motherboard and logically hang off the EISA/XBUS.

See Table 1–1 for current revision information.

Preface

Conventions Used in This Guide

This document uses the following conventions:

KEY

CTRL/key

Indicates a key on your keyboard. Indicates control characters. For example, Control C is

shown as the

CTRL/C

must be pressed simultaneously.

and indicates that both the

CTRL

and

FirmwareUpdateInformation

This chapter provides ﬁrmware and utility revision information, as well as information on where to ﬁnd ﬁrmware update images and documentation for your AlphaServer 4100 system.

Firmware updates are performed using the SRM console’s built-in LFU utility. Bootable LFU images are also supported, e.g. when booting the ﬁrmware update CD. LFU supports multiple update devices: local SCSI CD-ROM (CDA0), local ﬂoppy (DVA0), and local network (EWA0). Other devices are supported for the advanced user. Refer to Chapter 2 and the AlphaServer 4100 System Drawer User’s Guide for more information about LFU and other console commands, environment variables to set when performing updates off a network device, and ﬁrmware update procedures and examples.

The SRM and AlphaBIOS consoles, and associated ﬁrmware ﬁles such as I/O option ﬁrmware, are available via customer update kits (CD-ROM). For order information of the customer update kit please reference the Release Notes Overview booklet included in the ﬁrmware CD kit. A pointer to the World Wide Web (WWW) pages, which can be used to obtain interim ﬁrmware releases of AlphaServer 4100 ﬁrmware, is available later in this chapter.

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Firmware Update Information

1.1 Firmware and Operating System Revision Matrix

Table 1–1 lists operating system versions supported by SRM console. The ﬁrmware from this release is on the Alpha Systems Firmware Update V6.0 CD.

Table 1–1 AlphaServer 4100 Firmware/Software Revision Matrix

Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD

Release V6.0 V5.9 V5.8 V5.7 Date June-01 Jan.-01 Aug.-00 Apr.-00

AlphaServer 4x00 Firmware

SRM Firmware V6.0-4 V5.9-5 V5.8-2 V5.7-4 AlphaBIOS Firmware V5.70-0 V5.70-0 V5.70-0 V5.70-0 OpenVMS PAL V1.21-2 V1.21-2 V1.21-2 V1.21-2 DIGITAL UNIX PAL V1.23-2 V1.23-2 V1.23-2 V1.23-2

Operating Systems

OpenVMS V7.3 V7.3

V7.2-1 V7.2-1 V7.2-1 V7.2-1 V7.2 V7.2 V7.2 V7.2 V7.1-2 V7.1-2 V7.1-2 V7.1-2 V7.1-1H1 V7.1-1H1 V7.1-1H1 V7.1-1H1 V7.1 V7.1 V7.1 V7.1 V6.2-1H3 V6.2-1H3 V6.2-1H3 V6.2-1H3

Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.2 V5.2

V5.1 V5.1 V5.1 V5.0 V5.0 V5.0 V5.0 V4.0F V4.0F V4.0F V4.0F

DIGITAL UNIX V4.0E V4.0E V4.0E V4.0E

V4.0D V4.0D V4.0D V4.0D V4.0B V4.0B V4.0B V4.0B V4.0A V4.0A V4.0A V4.0A V3.2G V3.2G V3.2G V3.2G V3.2F V3.2F V3.2F V3.2F

1–2

Windows NT V3.51 V3.51 V3.51 V3.51

V4.0 V4.0 V4.0 V4.0

Firmware Update Information

1.2 Console Firmware Components and Revision Information

The AlphaServer 4100 is shipped with two console images - the SRM console for Compaq Tru64 UNIX, DIGITAL UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha customers and the AlphaBIOS console for Windows NT customers and for running ARC-based utilities. The SRM console update image (RHSRMROM.SYS) is a compressed ﬁle which contains the following individual ﬁrmware images:

Table 1–2 V6.0-4 SRM Console Firmware Components and Revisions

Component Revision Information

SRM Console V6.0-4 OpenVMS Alpha PALcode V1.21-2 DIGITAL UNIX PALcode V1.23-2 Extended SROM (XSROM) V6.0 Qlogic ISP1020 Firmware V5.57.

A World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided for ﬁrmware updates. Once the Alpha Systems Firmware Update V6.0 CD-ROM becomes available, update ﬁrmware for the AlphaServer 4100 will be available via this update CD. At that time, a /V6.0 directory will be created on the World Wide Web (see Section 1.6 for details).

Serial ROM (SROM) ships in a socketed part on each AlphaServer 4100 CPU. It is reponsible for initializing and testing enough of the machine to load Extended SROM (XSROM) from system ﬂash ROM. The latest SROM revision for all AlphaServer 4100 CPU types/revisions is V3.0. Versions V1.1 and V2.0 SROMs can be used on all CPU types/revisions unless you will be bypassing the embedded remote console function and connecting to a high speed modem, in which case, the minimum version needed is V2.0 SROMs for alternate (non-9600) COM1 baud rate support.

XSROM is reponsible for loading the SRM console and associated PAL code. If SROM determines that the ﬁrmware image it is supposed to load is corrupt (checksum fails), it attempts to load the system Fail-Safe Loader (FSL) from ﬂash ROM. The FSL is a simple ﬂoppy loader that can be used to load an SRM console from a ﬂoppy diskette. This loaded console can then be used to run the AlphaServer 4100 update utility (LFU). A kit with the FSL diskette and release notes is available. The V5.0 kit contents are listed in Table 1–3.

Table 1–3 Fail-safe Loader Kit content

Part Number Description

QZ-00WAA-HC.5.0 AlphaServer FSL V5.0 RX23 KIT AK-R1FYB-CA AlphaServer FSL V5.0 RX23 AV-R1FZB-TE AlphaServer Fail Safe REL NTE

The AlphaBIOS console is loaded and started by the SRM console if the SRM console’s OS_TYPE environment variable is set to "NT" or if the

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Firmware Update Information

user enters the SRM console ALPHABIOS command at the SRM console prompt. AlphaBIOS is a separate, compressed image and is separately updatable using LFU.

In general, both the SRM and AlphaBIOS consoles should be updated at the same time since the two images which ship on the update CD-ROM are typically qualiﬁed against one another.

1.3 PCI I/O Option Firmware Components - Revision Information

You can also ﬂash update ﬁrmware on certain PCI I/O options supported by the AlphaServer 4100 using LFU. Version V6.0-4 of the SRM console provides support for updating the following devices’ ﬁrmware:

Table 1–4 I/O Module Firmware Revision Matrix

Name Firmware Rev Update File Used By LFU

CIPCA A420 CIPCA420.SYS DEFPA V3.20 DFXAA320.SYS KZPSA A12 KZPSAA12.SYS KZPDA V5.57 RHSRMROM.SYS, ships with SRM Console KZPBA V5.57 RHSRMROM.SYS, ships with SRM Console

On a power-up/reset, the SRM console loads adapter ﬁrmware from console’s system ﬂash ROM into NVRAM on the I/O module for all Qlogic ISP1020-based PCI options such as the KZPDA and KZPBA. One updates SRM console ﬁrmware to update ISP1020-based PCI option ﬁrmware. V6.0-4 console ships with V5.57 ﬁrmware for ISP1020-based adapters. Note that this only applies for SRM console booting, i.e. for customers running DIGITAL UNIX and/or OpenVMS Alpha.

Other options, such as the KZPSC RAID controller also provide ﬁrmware update capability. However, LFU does not support KZPSC or KZPAC ﬁrmware updates. Refer to the Controller Installation and Standalone Utility User’s Guide for your particular StorageWorks RAID Array subsystem should you need to update your RAID subsystem’s ﬁrmware.

1.4 Conﬁguration Utility Kit and Version Information

The EISA Conﬁguration Utility (ECU) is available on separate media (ﬂoppy disks) for use on AlphaServer 4100 systems. The RAID Conﬁguration Utility (RCU) ships on both ﬂoppy and the Alpha Firmware CD. The KZPSA Conﬁguration Utility ships on the Alpha Firmware CD. For compatibility with this ﬁrmware release, the minimum revisions of the conﬁguration utilities given in Table 1–5 must be used if required.

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