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11-01-2013 11:25 AM
11-01-2013 11:25 AM
I recently bought a brand new, never used, Itanium RX1600, built in 2004. I don’t think it was ever registered with HP. I need to update the machine’s firmware to run I64 OpenVMS V8.4. It currently is running firmware version E01.02. I have discovered I need firmware versions E.02.26 & E.02.29 to then upgrade it to the firmware I do have. I have not been able to find any of this firmware on the web and of course HP wants a maintenance contract to help.
Can anyone help me.
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11-01-2013 11:43 AM - edited 11-01-2013 11:53 AM
11-01-2013 11:43 AM - edited 11-01-2013 11:53 AM
Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
The E.02... firmware is for the MP, you are right, steps are needed.
For most systems of this family:
E.02.10
E.02.26
E.02.29
E.03.32
This is the current software page:
Here are some of the MP versions:
Version:E.03.15 (EFI Image) (7 Jul 2005) Version:E.03.13 (EFI Image) (31 Jan 2005)
Version:E.02.29 (EFI Image) (22 Jun 2004)
Please go to
MP:CM>
and send us a "sysrev" output.
Example:
MP:CM> sysrev
SYSREV
Current firmware revisions
MP FW : E.03.15
BMC FW : 03.48
EFI FW : 02.14
System FW : 02.18
Hope this helps!
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11-01-2013 12:40 PM
11-01-2013 12:40 PM
Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
I seem to be missing part of your message.
I was able to download E.02.29. Now I have to find a PC tar emulator.
I'm not quite sure of your shell commands. When I boot up my firmware disk, it tells me I have:
System Firmware 1.10
BMC 2.26
MP Unknown
Maybe I am not as bad off as I though I was. I'm not sure where I got the 01.02 from.
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11-01-2013 12:46 PM - edited 11-01-2013 01:22 PM
11-01-2013 12:46 PM - edited 11-01-2013 01:22 PM
Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
Maybe you don't have a MP card (this was optional).
Copy the files to an USB stick, go to EFI and start the update:
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=406201&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D2%257CswItem%253Dux_54921_1%257CswEnvOID%253D54%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D4%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken
See the revision history, version 1.10 was the initial release:
Hope this helps!
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11-01-2013 01:39 PM
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Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
You are right, NO MP. I was thinking of adding a supported graphics card to see if I could get beyond having serial terminals.
I copied both files CF_CEVERMPE0229.tar.gv and .tar to a USB 2.0 stick. When I go to the EFI shell is sees to USB devices, the other being a keyboard, as blk0: & blk1:. Not being much of a unix person, when I type either blk0: or blk1: and try to do a ls or dir, they give me an error of No Mapping.
Any more ideas
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11-01-2013 01:54 PM
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Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
Hope this helps!
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11-01-2013 02:31 PM
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Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
I'm afraid I can't seem to make it work.
I actually put all 3 files on a FAT32 formated memory stick - .tar.fsz, .tar, and .efi.
No FS0 device on boot or in EFI shell. I can map the blk0-4 to a fsx device, I can mount the blk0 or blk1 devices, but there seems to be nothing there. I even tried to boot from a file using the USB, but that failed too.
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11-01-2013 02:44 PM
11-01-2013 02:44 PM
Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
reconnect -r
and
map -r
now.
fs0: visible? yIII u may try the ISO from the link I gave you.
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Hope this helps!
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11-04-2013 11:24 AM
11-04-2013 11:24 AM
Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
I'm sorry, I just got around trying out your last response.
reconnect -r - Justs displays the 2 scsi disks & 2 ethernet ports
map -r - displays
blk0 : xxxxxxxx/Ata(Primary, Master)
blk1: xxxxxxxx/usb(0, 0)
blk2: xxxxxxxx/usb(0,0)/HD(Part1, Sig00000000)
blk3: xxxxxxxx/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)
blk4: xxxxxxxx/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)
No fs0:
I seem to be still misunderstanding you.
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11-04-2013 11:31 AM - edited 11-04-2013 11:40 AM
11-04-2013 11:31 AM - edited 11-04-2013 11:40 AM
Re: Old Firmware for New Old RX1600
There is the CD-ROM, the USB stick and the drives listed.
Something wrong with your USB stick?
NTFS formatted?
Try to fromat it again with FAT32 or burn the ISO file to a CD-ROM.
It should look like this:
Shell> map -r
Device mapping table
fs0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(1|0)/Usb(1, 0)/HD(Part1,SigC3072E18)
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(2|0)/Ata(Primary,Master)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(1|0)/Usb(1, 0)
blk2 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(1|0)/Usb(1, 0)/HD(Part1,SigC3072E18)
Hope this helps!
Regards
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