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Can't boot from SAN

 
Vorb
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Can't boot from SAN

I've prepared new LUN for the nPar to move from local disks, changed primary boot path and get en error: 

Cannot find IODC data bytes.  Error Status: -4

 

Seach doesn't see anything except for local disks, but booted OS discovers LUN fine. 

 

I've found some document discribing that my FC card supports boot from san, but in chasis logs i see an error "BOOT_PDC_IODC_HEADER_ERR" which means that my card is either unsupported, or installed incorrectly. My card: 

# ioscan -funCfc
Class     I  H/W Path    Driver S/W State   H/W Type     Description
===================================================================
fc        0  0/0/12/0/0  fcd  CLAIMED     INTERFACE    HP AB378-60101 4Gb Single Port PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel Adapter (FC Port 1)
                        /dev/fcd0

 

Maybe experienced administrators have some ideas how to fix this problem?

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Vorb
Occasional Contributor

Re: Can't boot from SAN

Seems to be an old firmware: 

root@fins01-old:/ # fcmsutil /dev/fcd0 vpd
V I T A L P R O D U C T D A T A
--------- ------------- -------

Product Description : HP PCI-X 2.0 4Gb Fibre Channel HBA

Part number : AB378-60101

Engineering Date Code : A-4713

Part Serial number : JP49021632

Misc. Information : PW=7.5W;PCI=66MHZ;PCI-X=266MHZ

Mfd. Date : 4902

Mfd. ID : AB378-60101

Check Sum : 0x2d

EFI version : 01.09

ROM Firmware version : 04.00.90

BIOS version : 01.26

FCODE version : 01.17

Asset Tag : NA

 

Is it possible to update it without downtime of the other PA-RISC superdome partitions?