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The v3.40 firmware image may be obtained from the Smart Array 5300A product
web site or on the V6.6 Alpha Firmware CD in the OPTIONS subdirectory. Two
examples of the controller firmware update command syntax are presented below.
Both examples employ the Loadable Firmware Utility (LFU) function of the
Alpha SRM console.
The first example will update controller instance PYA0 with the v3.40 image after
booting the V6.6 Alpha Firmware CD in CD-ROM device DQA0 on any
supported Alpha system:
UPD> update pya0 -p iso9660:[OPTIONS]kzpdc340.sys/dqa0
The second example employs the firmware image available on the Smart Array
5300A web site and assumes that the update media is a floppy disk in device
DVA0. After unpacking the .zip archive of the v3.40 firmware image place the file
onto a MS-DOS (FAT) formatted floppy disk. Place the disk into your Alpha
system floppy drive and execute the following command after entering the LFU.
Note that it is required to specify the .bin file extension of the firmware image.
The example updates KZPDC controller instance PYC0.
UPD> update pyc0 -p fat:kzpdc340.bin/dva0
Alpha System Firmware Support
It is recommended that all Alpha system environments hosting the KZPDC
product be updated using SRM firmware from the V6.6 (or later) Alpha Firmware
CD release. The V6.6 release firmware for Alpha systems is downloadable from
the following locations:
http://www.itrc.hp.com
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/
Operating System Support
Smart Array 5300A controllers may be configured for operation under Tru64
UNIX version 5.1A or version 5.1B. OpenVMS support is available in versions
7.3-1 and 7.3-2 of the operating system. The product may be employed either as
the system boot controller or as a data only array controller in all supported OS
environments. Installation requirements vary, however, depending on the system
environment under consideration when the SA5300A product is first installed.
2 Release Notes – Smart Array 5300A Backplane RAID Controllers