MSA1000 firmware update on HPUX

[Donald Scott Nelson]

All,

I am trying to load firmware on the MSA1000 from HPUX. I have the MSA1000 controller plugged into a A6795 2gig pci card. I have tried two different systems with two different operating systems 11.11/11.23 both HPUX, the systems I have tried this on are the rx2600 and an IA superdome (ORCA) I forget the rxxxxx name. I get the same results on both. The problem is that ioscan is not seeing the msa1000 controller and the LUN I created through the cli is not seen either. I have tried replacing about everything. Is there any gotchas or tricks to loading this firmware through HPUX and or seeing the MSA1000 in ioscan on HPUX? So I am kind of stuck on trying to load the firmware until I can get HPUX to recognize the MSA1000. Does anyone have any ideas on the problem I am having? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

-Scott

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Hi Scott,

downloading HP-UX firmware directly from HP-UX machine is only possible, if you have switched fabric FC connection to the msa1000 (via internal SAN Switch 2/8 module or via external FC switch). If you have msa1000 with standarc one port FC I/O module connecter directly to A6795A card, the only way to download new firmware is the way of temporary use Windows or Linux machine.

More info:
http://h200007.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00096723/c00096723.pdf

Regards,
Zygmunt

[Alvaro_11]

Hi.

An option, through serial cable and with Zmodem transfer with hyperterminal from Windows OS, you can update the Firmware on MSA1000.

Alvaro.